Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space shuttle or the shuttle orbiter for short. The shuttle, to make it even shorter, is the most powerful and complicated craft ever put together by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Apollo capsules that went to the moon are Model T artifacts in comparison. Columbia, with booster rockets and fuel tank, weighs 2.7 million Ibs.; it is controlled by computers loaded with more than 600,000 lines of exquisitely precise program codes; it has pumps the size of trash cans that can discharge superheated gases at the rate of half a ton a second. Barring the reality...
...maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says Voinovich: "I feel like one of those rocket ships that are ready to take off. We're on the pad, but we need some fuel...
...technical and humanitarian assistance," the Libyan leader dispatched a sizable military force into Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habré agreed to a cease-fire sponsored by the Organization of African Unity...
...such rocket made it through the twines for the first Crimson tally, a slapshot from the top of the slot by Mark Fusco that Tom Murray deflected home at 12:39 of the first period...
...sprint freestyle events, Crimson captain Bobby Hackett got nipped by Klingele in the 50-yd. free, but Jim Carbone came on to beat the Army rocket in the 100-yd. event...