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...failure occurred during an unusually complex maintenance procedure and was caused by a combination of two computer-software glitches and a bad judgment call. Those glitches resulted in the shutdown of one essential SOHO attitude-sensing gyroscope, a failure by a computer to recognize that the gyroscope was not operating, the unnecessary firing of SOHO's hydrazine-powered thrusters, and a mistake by controllers in switching off a gyroscope that was working properly. "Thrusters kept firing to null out a roll that was not happening," explains NASA's Michael Greenfield, co-chair of the investigation group...
...night, Aug. 12, a sort of out-of-town opening for the performances that would follow. He tried out a lawyer's redacted version of a confession, not on Hillary but on a friend whose reviews he could trust. He said the relationship had begun during the 1995 government shutdown; it strayed across the line, and it made him ashamed. What really worried him, now that he had to face the grand jury, was how he would prepare Hillary for the next four days...
...When that disaster propelled the Republicans into control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, they tried to go too far in the other direction, with a proposal to cut Medicare-spending growth so they could raise money for tax cuts. That forced the 1995 government shutdown that put Clinton back on top of the game. Thus it would be understandable if neither party ever wanted to go near the issue again...
...first 400 737s in order to cover such costs as overtime charges and late-delivery fees. (Last week the Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines to replace a supplier-built engine part on 23 NG 737s after an engine shut down on two European carriers during flight. Neither shutdown resulted in injury...
...losses at $50 million a day. The workers stand to take a big financial hit themselves; if they do not return to work by June 26, they lose a week's worth of union-won "holiday pay" for the first half of GM's annual two-week plant shutdown, which begins June...