Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there. An even less desirable option: putting Columbia down on a concrete strip at California's Edwards Air Force Base, near the muddy, rain-soaked desert lake bed where Columbia touched down on its two earlier missions. Laconically acknowledging the ship's dwindling fuel supplies, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson explained: "We are in a finite situation, and the longer you wait the fewer options you have...
Some spoilsport journalists suggested that Columbia was showing all the symptoms of a used car. Not so, replied Houston Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, adding, "If it's acting like a used car, I'd like to own it." In fact, Columbia's glitches, with the exception of the radio breakdown, were all relatively minor, and it was unfortunate that they obscured the mission's true importance. By making a record-breaking third voyage into space, Columbia was providing stunning proof of NASA's basic vision: that the U.S. could build and operate a spacecraft capable...
...WilliamE. Smith. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett with Reagan and Neil MacNeil/Washington...
Thirty seven seconds later, Neil Sheehy and the Badgers Ted Pearson, who appears ready and willing to badger anybody that happens to be around got into a little scrap alongside the Harvard net, and each took a roughing penalty. However Sheehy had a slash tacked on for good measure, and so Harvard would be short handed for two minutes after Pearson returned...
...recession. Convinced that those huge deficits will keep interest rates high, businessmen are thus far unwilling to bet their buck on new investments and expanded production. Washington's waiting game, in short, carries risks that are not just political. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Neil MacNeil/Washington