Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuss over alleged university tuition- and price-fixing, many have asked since a broad U.S. Justice Department probe became public last August...
...accepting the incomplete reports on the facts unearthed by and the motives of the Justice Department probe, the staff is falling under the spell created by the political grandstanding of the Bush Administration. This probe is yet another effort to attack relatively unimportant issues while avoiding the innumerable problems facing the country...
...cheer. At last the Galileo mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...
...doubt the scientific value of the Galileo flight. Nonetheless, a sharp controversy has dogged the mission. At issue is the space probe's power source: two radioisotope thermoelectric generators that are fueled by almost 50 lbs. of highly radioactive plutonium 238. Antinuclear groups, led by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Washington-based Christic Institute, have claimed that the generators are unsafe. Their view is shared by Richard Cuddihy, an analyst with the Inhalation Toxicology Research Center in Albuquerque and the lone dissenter on the federal interagency panel that recommended a go-ahead for the Galileo program...
Unfortunately, this naive instinct to probe mechanics becomes replaced by a jaded acceptance of its ubiquitous presence. An example of this appears in Bloom County, where Oliver Wendell Jones's Banana 2000 computer (which looks suspiciously like a Macintosh) strives to achieve simple respect, even from a young boy. While Oliver engages in computer pirating fantasies with the Banana, he feels no remorse in trashing his friend for a new model. Technology and young Oliver maintain a merely professional relationship...