Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After disclosures this week that as many as 10 Brown University students may have been operating a prositution ring, administrators and students at the Providence campus are saying that unfair media coverage may tarnish the school's image...
...Kilminster, vice president for booster programs; Jerald Mason, senior vice president, and Calvin Wiggins, vice president for space projects. A dozen Thiokol engineers in Utah were also participating. Boisjoly presented six charts that had been transmitted to the others and argued that "lower temperature was a factor" in O-ring performance. Lund, the highest engineering officer, said flatly that unless the temperature reached at least 53 degrees , "I don't want...
Mulloy and Hardy led the NASA challenge to this conclusion. Hardy said that he was "appalled" by the reasoning behind the no-fly stance of Thiokol, $ while Mulloy insisted that there was no demonstrable link between temperature and O-ring erosion. He contended that despite NASA's placing the booster seals on the criticality-1 list because of a lack of redundancy, the backup ring would certainly seat in the critical early-ignition phase of the launch and provide a seal even if gases got by the first ring. Since NASA had not established a minimum launch temperature...
Called to testify, Lucas ran into a buzz saw of objections from Rogers when he tried to argue that he had never considered the O-ring problem a flight- safety issue, even though its criticality classification meant that it clearly was. Pressed, he finally conceded, "If I had heard the alarms that have been expressed in this room this week before the flight, I certainly would have been concerned. Yes sir." Nonetheless he insisted later at a press conference, "I think it was a sound decision to launch...
...Soviets are back in the ring, Drago-like, mixing jabs with diplomatic bobbing and weaving. Gorbachev tried before last year's summit to hold progress in all areas of the superpower relationship hostage to American concessions on Star Wars. Yet when Reagan stood his ground, Gorbachev shifted his. In January the Soviet leader put Reagan on the public relations defensive with a headline-grabbing scheme to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth by the year 2000. While the proposal was as cynical as it was utopian, it included an intriguing and far more practical offer that eases...