Word: pads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orbiter Discovery was rolled into the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building to be attached to the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching pad 39B and poised for launch in late August or September. "The test results look good. The hardware looks great," said Deputy Operations Director Robert Crippen. "We're in the countdown to launch...
Which makes Secretary of Defense Frank Charles Carlucci III the man on the spot -- and, simultaneously and somewhat surprisingly, the only rising star in the twilight of the Reagan Administration. Carlucci, 57, was appointed last fall to what looked like a caretaker's post, to pad out what was already the longest resume in Washington (positions in seven different agencies -- "one ahead of Elliot Richardson," he jokes). But acting like a caretaker is not in the nature of Carlucci, a far from faceless bureaucrat who boasts that in all his jobs "I don't think anybody has accused...
Rodriguez is involved in other activities that, according to Nichols, "she doesn't just do to pad her resume...
...consider myself blessed," she says. "There are a lot of people in my circle of friends for whom Harvard has been the best thing to happen for them. It's such a launching pad...
...Harvard has been a launching pad for Anderson, it's almost succeeded too well. Faced with a musical/medical dichotomy, Anderson says that she must now decide whether or not to go to med school. "I've been so lackadaisical about it the whole thing, trying to put it off for as long as I can," Anderson says. "I'm going to take the MCAT's in the fall, and I'll be applying this summer...