Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crazy," said Tawana at a packed press conference held in New Jersey because her mother is on the run from New York State authorities for refusing to testify before the grand jury. After the full report is officially released in a few weeks, New York attorney general Robert Abrams will probably drop the case, leaving the Brawley imbroglio to be sorted out where it has played best: in the court of public opinion...
...launch time, while meteorologists continuously monitored the winds with weather balloons. Before long, the winds did shift and pick up a little, but they were still outside NASA's criteria for a launch. After a detailed analysis, the mission- management team agreed that the shuttle was not endangered. Astronaut Robert Crippen, charged with making the final go or no-go decision, had no qualms about waiving the wind restriction. Less than an hour after Discovery finally lifted off, an hour and 38 minutes late, clouds moved in, and a bit later heavy rainstorms pelted the cape...
...escape system -- the solid rocket boosters, the orbiter's three liquid-fuel engines and the huge external fuel tank. What is more, each of the modifications or changes was laboriously reviewed by the Discovery astronauts. "NASA went far beyond our recommendations and fixed all that we wanted," says Robert B. Hotz, a member of the Rogers commission. "There was a whole series of potential accidents waiting to happen. I'm pleased with what NASA has done...
...pros got a kick out of the amateurism. Laughed American Pam Shriver, who with Zina Garrison grabbed the gold in women's doubles: "I'm staying in my first coed dorm. You don't get that kind of luxury on the women's tennis tour." Americans Ken Flach and Robert Seguso won the men's doubles...
...image unjustly diminished too many great performances. But fears about a widespread drug problem are entirely justified: the use of performance- enhancing agents is far more common than the number of disqualifications would imply. Dr. Robert Voy, chief medical officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee, reports that no-penalty testing in 1983-84 found that 20% to 50% of U.S. athletes were doping. Current formal testing in the U.S. turns up positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones...