Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protect him from humiliation, tripped on the tail of his lab coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total cost: about $6 million...
...Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...
...joking aside, though, the survey results reflect a very serious problem in our society. Since it requires two people to give the same response for an answer to go up on the board, it is frightening to consider the answers that were not listed. "Get a job" or "Help support the family" were said by fewer than...
Arafat's three-point plan called first for "a serious effort" to convene an international peace conference in Geneva under U.N. auspices...
Frequently-travelled routes between the Yard and dormitories should be better lit and guarded. Many of the more remote areas of campus--such as Peabody Terrace, the Law School and the path between Leverett, Dunster and Mather Houses--have had serious security problems in the past, and should be made safer for those who walk there at night...