Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first step was to gather every scrap of evidence that could be found, including the remains of Challenger. A fleet of 13 vessels, four planes and nine helicopters began searching an area that eventually grew to 6,000 sq. mi. of Atlantic coastal waters, picking up thousands of pounds of wreckage, including a large section of the shuttle's fuselage and the nose of a booster rocket...
...will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger debris--the same procedure they follow in investigating an aircraft crash. Says one former NASA scientist: "I just hope there's enough evidence to find the smoking...
...second half saw the hoopsters continually scrap their way back from several double-digit deficits, but every time they had an opportunity to narrow the gap to four points they seemed...
...binding vote, the Law School Faculty yesterday recommended that the student-run Harvard Law Review scrap its recent proposal to move its selection process from June to April...
...part lecture series on the military uses of space sponsored by the Harvard Space Research Group, Schnelzer, director of Sensors, one of the five branches of the SDIO, said that by the early 1990s the government will have enough information to decide whether to build or scrap the "Star Wars" defense system...