Word: review
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ensure against more fumbles, NASA has subjected the Hubble rescue plan to an unprecedented eight mission-review panels, some internal and some outside the agency. "This time, we're doing sanity checks and double sanity checks," says NASA's John Wood, chief of Hubble's optics...
...South Carolina, which is scheduled to lose its Charleston Naval Station. But Congress has cleverly set up a system that allows the Pentagon to push through its closures while insulating legislators from much of the responsibility or political fallout. In 1990 it established an eight-member bipartisan commission to review Pentagon proposals. If the President approves the commission's recommendations, Congress must consider the package as a whole and can reject it only by a majority vote in both houses...
...husband, often she has only the mercy of the justice system to determine her fate. But in Florida, Kimberly Soubielle, 27, became the first beneficiary of a novel state procedure that allows a husband killer who claims battered-woman syndrome to argue successfully for clemency before a special review panel. The Governor and the cabinet commuted her sentence to five years served and put her on 15-years probation. The release was a victory for activist Candice Slaughter, who had pressed for the reform...
...past week alone, the coalition--which says it represents several hundreds of minority students on campus--has managed to send top Harvard officials scrambling to arrange meetings, reevaluate the curriculum and review race relations policy...
Critics more willing to play along defend their actions as perfectly ethical. Granger says she supplies copies of all her reviews in advance because the studio publicists would not be able to see them otherwise. "I feel I owe them a review, bad or good or mediocre," she says. "I don't consider it a problem because I treat all films the same way." Langfield insists that it is the studios' publicity tactics, not her reviewing, that have changed since she started in 1980. "Back then you never got a phone call from a publicist asking what you thought...