Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, good overall relations with Washington seem ensured by Barco's U.S. ties, which include a Pennsylvania-born wife and the fact that three of his four children attended college in Massachusetts. "The reason Barco has trouble speaking in public," one campaign quip went, "is that he thinks in English." For now, Barco is thinking cautiously. "I received a great backing in the elections," he says, "but at the same time, a great responsibility." The ca awkward orator knows full well that the time has come for action...
...NASA had become a bureaucracy that had lost its way. Before the first shuttle was launched, the agency had known of the fatal seal problem but had buried it under a blizzard of paper while permitting schedule-conscious managers to keep the orbiters flying. In retrospect, it began to seem, the Challenger tragedy was all but inevitable...
...flight. Lost with the rocket was a $90 million telecommunications satellite. It was the fourth failure in 18 Ariane launches and the third malfunction of its third-stage engine, suggesting a possible system problem. So Ariane, too, was grounded while the accident's cause is sought. Most American companies seem willing to wait out the shuttle's return. Hughes Communications, a subsidiary of the largest private American satellite maker, has sent one launch to Arianespace but has committed some $500 million for the use of NASA facilities, including eleven projects over the next five years. Says the company's president...
...these fatal procedural flaws be corrected? Rogers is trying to protect his commission's proposals against premature disclosure. "These are for the President," he told his commissioners. Still, some recommendations seem almost obvious. NASA headquarters must take firm control of its sprawling agency, even while cutting back on its paper flow. Anyone in the system holding a strong view on a safety problem must feel free to raise it at any level, rather than being limited to his own reporting channel...
...panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences to oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management. On his return to his old post, he says, he was surprised to discover that top officials "didn't seem to be talking to each other." He intends to "get to the bottom" of the communications problem. As for the impending Rogers report, Fletcher expects that "it will be pretty harsh...