Word: ship
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...disappointed people and some heavily trafficked web sites. NASA has all but given the last rites to its latest probe now that Mars Polar Lander has for the fourth straight day obstinately refused to phone home. Couple that with the failure three months ago of its sister ship, the Mars Climate Orbiter, and you could forgive space agency officials for feeling more than a little grumpy today...
...more than a little worried. While this is hardly the first or even the most expensive ship ever to be lost around the Red Planet (that would be the billion-dollar Mars Observer, lost en route in 1993 and now presumably doing its observing outside the Oort cloud), NASA officials have to be concerned by the timing of these high-profile failures. Tuesday, the agency announced it would reevaluate the Mars program, a move that could delay or even abort NASA's ambitious plans to send a lander and an orbiter to Mars every 26 months for the next decade...
...While Clinton promised American voters that he'd end "politics as usual," he quietly went off to Wall Street and assured the corporate pooh-bahs that he'd protect and expand business-as-usual. He promised to safeguard and open up markets for corporate America, run a fiscally tight ship and prepare the nation's workforce and corporations to win the globalization game...
Hugh P. Liebert '01, publisher of The Salient and a Crimson columnist, says he is one of several conservatives who have jumped ship from Darling to Leonard...
...owner of Savenor's Market in Boston, a renowned gourmet shop, Savenor estimates he will ship or sell about 1,200 turkeys this holiday season...