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...which is just what happened in 1993, when the Mars Observer--a spacecraft that was NASA's only attempted Mars mission since 1976--apparently blew an aneurysm in a fuel line and spiraled off into space. Goldin decided that such Cadillac probes should be replaced with more-modest ones: stripped-down ships made of components already on the shelf. When skeptical NASA engineers began assembling these workbench spacecraft, they found them surprisingly elegant...
...Woodland Hastings, master of Pforzheimer House through 1995, characterized the Pforzheimers as "marvelous, warm, generous, modest and unassuming." He said the family kept in touch constantly in the months following the name change...
While the Democrats made modest gains in the House, the GOP managed to retain its majority, while actually tightening its grip in the Senate by picking up two additional seats...
...like Republicans, so the G.O.P. counts on Session's name recognition to give him an edge for this open seat. Like his opponent, Sessions is passionately anti-drug and pro-family, but he's also campaigning on a Republican platform of lower taxes and fiscal frugality. He's for "modest cuts" in spending, but he vows to stand by Medicare and Social Security. If elected, Sessions would give the g.o.p. control of both Alabama Senate seats for the first time since Reconstruction...
Hoping to inherit the mantle of retiring four-term Representative Lewis Payne, Goode is both a Democrat and a conservative populist: he is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-tobacco--and has fund-raising barbecues for a modest $5-a-plate...