Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight football fields and weighing 16 tons will be unfurled on the Ellipse near the White House. A four-month-long, 20-city tour by the San Francisco-based NAMES Project, which thought up the idea, has swelled the number of the quilt's 3-ft. by 6-ft. panels from 2,000 to 8,288. Each panel, produced by friends and relatives, commemorates a single life lost to AIDS; stitched together is everything from ashes, photographs and articles of clothing to an air-conditioning vent. The unveiling will culminate a week-long series of events celebrating the anniversary...
...most of the millions who witnessed Discovery's lift-off, the spacecraft on the launchpad looked little different from its ill-fated predecessor, Challenger. But the similarity was only skin deep. Responding to the recommendations of the Rogers commission, the 13-member panel appointed by the White House to investigate the causes of the Challenger tragedy, NASA spent $2.4 billion redesigning and replacing crucial components of its shuttle fleet. Over the past two years, the space agency has made more than 400 changes in the winged orbiter -- including a much touted new escape system -- the solid rocket boosters, the orbiter...
Dukakis listed the five assignments asresolving trade problems with Japan, heading ananti-terrorism panel, leading the war on drugs,investigating problems in the banking industry andheading a task force on regulatory reform...
...absence of any sense of responsibility in the tobacco companies prompted the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), a panel of faculty, students and administrators which advises the Corporation on ethical investing, to recommend to the CCSR that Harvard divest from these companies. Ironically, the ACSR also once recommended that Harvard divest from its holdings in South African-related companies. This was advice which the University, which retains about $200 million in such stock, has largely disregarded-much to its discredit...
...earlier panel discussion, three women health care experts concluded that women must begin to assume leadership roles in the medical profession...