Word: probe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...page Monday. It now says the agent saw Clinton and Lewinsky in "an ambiguous incident," not a compromising position. Agent X is said to be "frightened and worried" about a possible subpoena ? indeed, the entire Secret Service is having a crisis of confidence over its role in the Starr probe. They're sworn to protect the President's life ? could one of their number now destroy a presidency...
...major reason Saddam Hussein was so keen to get rid of Scott Ritter this week is that part of the former Marine captain's job is to probe Iraq's efforts to spy on the U.N. weapons inspectors, TIME correspondent William Dowell has learned...
...investigation has nevertheless crossed from a 30-day to a 90-day probe. And now the President, with two former cabinet members already indicted and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt facing a probe of his own, has one more employee to worry about...
...wonder just what they were flying. That accident produced the most devastating account of the T-3's mechanical weaknesses. The official investigation disclosed that after the plane was delivered to the Air Force, manufacturer Slingsby Aviation Ltd. recommended that 119 fixes be made to improve safety. That probe and other reports showed that the Air Force had made numerous engine changes, revised its starting procedure and modified the airplane's fuel lines and cowling, but that the motor had continued to shut down for unknown reasons. The brakes suffer from "sponginess, excessive travel and total loss of brake pressure...
...Carrying the probe will be the new Athena 2 rocket, built by Lockheed Martin as part of NASA's low-cost, high-speed Discovery program to explore this solar system. The mission will cost just $63 million. But the results may well be historic. If the probe confirms the presence of water ice at the Moon's south pole, the next era of space exploration may be at hand: missions launched from a manned Moon outpost that could drill for its own water and thus be self-sustaining. That would indeed be a pretty big step for mankind...