Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: The average Boris isn't paying much attention to the crisis-ridden and occasionally oxygen-starved Mir. Why? "Most question why we are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars when there are so many other more pressing matters on Earth," reports TIME's Andrew Meier. Most Muscovites would rather see the money go toward state wages and pensions, unpaid in Russia for as long as five months in some cases...
...rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a brief panic at NASA early this morning...
...Airbag; the baroque beauty of Paranoid Android; the steady, solemn build of Let Down. On those songs, this album takes flight, achieves orbit and looks down on all the earthbound bands below that are afraid to take such stylistic chances. But listeners should beware: there's only so much oxygen...
Just for a moment the world held its breath, as Mir lost the use of both its primary and backup oxygen generators - in what might have proved a devastating malfunction for the disabled space station. Communications with Mir went down just as the crew reported the failure...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Transportation Safety Board stuck to its guns today, ruling that ValuJet Flight 592 which plunged into a Florida swamp was brought down by a fire ignited by loaded chemical oxygen generators. The NTSB was even-handed in aportioning blame, saying SabreTech, ValuJet and the FAA are all partially responsible for the disaster, which killed 105 passengers and five crew members last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged...