Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems of sending a spacecraft to Mars and bringing it back to earth pale when compared with the challenge of keeping its human cargo safe and in peak physical and mental condition. The medical consequences of long periods of weightlessness are still not fully understood. And radiation, says NASA's Michael Bungo, "is going to be a showstopper." Once beyond the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which protects terrestrial life from most lethal radiation, crew members would be vulnerable to cosmic rays. These highly energetic particles travel through space at close to the speed of light and can produce...
...that "there is no reason to question the proper functioning of the plane or its use." He did not fix the blame on pilot error, but other officials alleged that Pilot Michel Asseline, 44, had been flying much too low, at only about 30 ft., far below the minimum safe level of 100 ft. This was less than totally comforting for Airbus and Air France, however, because the veteran Asseline is the airline's chief flight instructor on the new plane...
Some things never change, such as the Democrats' compulsion to list in encylopedic detail all the forms of bias they abhor. A safe bet: the social- science buzz word multicultural will not appear in the G.O.P. platform...
...chapters of machine guns and blood, moreover, Donoso's novel proves that even in an area where police stand on every street corner and seem planted for protection, it is unclear who is the object of their guard. In Donoso's Chile nothing is sacred, no one is safe, and even love perishes in the face of political complications and desires...
...State Department is trying to persuade Lilly to reverse its decision. Meanwhile, they will continue to press Peru to rip out the coca plants by hand. Though ecologically safe, that method has drawbacks: the program last year managed to clear only 876 of the 395,000 acres under coca cultivation...