Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While insisting that it faces no immediate crisis, the Air Force deeply regrets its overreliance on the shuttle. "We have learned a lot, the hard way, from the Challenger mess," admits one general. "It was wrong to mix both civilian and military payloads in that unreliable, complicated system." Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, a member of the Rogers commission, has estimated that even if shuttles resume operation next summer and make an improbable 18 flights a year, there will be a defense-payload backlog of some 45 needed flights...
...problem with Reversal of Fortune is that it tries too hard to mix in the sleaze with a balanced, legalistic approach to the trial. In the end, anyone who wanted to know just how Dershowitz--the nation's premier criminal appeals attorney--handled this case would feel a little short shrift, and so would anyone who wanted to read about all the trashy gossip...
...price is generally 10% to 20% less than that for comparable models offered by competitors. In addition, Sun users can exchange data with many other types of computers. That allows business customers who already have office computer systems to add Sun workstations. Says McNealy: "Customers can mix and match and create a customized computing environment...
...approve of their sexuality. Despite the earnest efforts of clergy and religious educators in both the Jewish and Christian traditions to suggest otherwise, the opinion subsists, fed, no doubt on the remnants of a preadolescent identification of the Divinity with one's own parents. In consequence, discussions that mix religion and sexual values tend to be particularly loaded...
...each year. His clothes, which feature sharp lines and muted colors, have a worldliness that combines Eastern ease with Western tailoring. "I have tried to bring different cultures together," he remarks. Kumagai sees contemporary Japan as an imperfect blend of the traditional and the new: "I have tried to mix them the right way. In the '80s, many designers have tried to destroy balance. I wouldn't want to remove the real balance of the human body...