Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houser, a chemistry foreman at the plant, had put on his antiradiation gear, including three pairs of coveralls and a full-face respirator, in order to draw a vital sample of contaminated water to help his colleagues figure out what was happening. He absorbed only four rems during his mission; a total of five is the limit set by the plant for a year. "It's not the kind of thing you want to do," he explained later, "but you have...
...disinterested observers agree, they do a good job. An analogy can be drawn with the space program. In its early days it was plagued by sloppy work and accidents, but now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration enforces tight safety controls on contractors. If the Nuclear Regulatory Com mission had been equally tough with the utility industry, some veteran observers of the space program believe, the Three Mile Island accident would not have happened...
...person as their butt, accusing him of whoring, sedition, charlatanry. As writing about Islam and the Orient burgeoned-60,000 books between 1800 and 1950-European powers occupied large swatches of "Islamic" territory, arguing that since Orientals knew nothing about democracy and were essentially passive, it was the "civilizing mission" of the Occident, expressed in the strict programs of despotic modernization, to finally transform the Orient into a nice replica of the West. Even Marx seems to have believed this...
...observers added that yesterday's failure, and the disastrous mission of Soyuz 25 in October 1977, shows a weakness in the Soviet ability to form an orbiting "sausage" of several vehicles...
...first, attempt to dock with a space station was aborted in 1971 without any explanation. The next manned mission, Soyuz 11, put three men aboard the space station Salyut 1. But the cosmonauts were killed on their return to earth when their cabin lost its pressurization...