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...partial shutdown at GM came at a very healthy time for the U.S auto industry. For the first eight months of the year, car sales are up 24.1 % over the same period in 1983, and trucks are up 36.5%. Before the strike hit, the industry was headed for its second-best year in history, with sales of 14.9 million cars and trucks...
...position to earn windfall profits from GM's distress. Both companies also have low stocks of their popular models. Since both firms' assembly lines are operating at near capacity, they will not be able to increase production significantly to make up for the GM shutdown...
That was a typical NASA understatement. Agency engineers soon realized that assessing and correcting the problem would take at least ten days, and possibly much longer. By week's end they traced the shutdown to a faulty valve in one of the shuttle's three engines, as well as to the perfectionist main computer, which oversees all auxiliary computer systems on board. When it detected that the valve was sluggish in opening, it automatically shut down the entire operation, as curtly as it might flick off a light...
...program. Never before has a countdown been interrupted after a main engine was ignited. Once engines are sparked and combustible materials released, the likelihood of a launch-pad tragedy escalates dramatically. As it turns out, experts who studied high-speed film of Discovery's firing taken right before shutdown believe that something was burning that should not have been. Normally, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxgygen that combine in the engine nozzles to fuel the shuttle at takeoff produce billows of clean white steam. The film shows reddish-orange streaks in the clouds, a sign of burning plastic...
...carbon compounds; the town's sewerage and water board had to upgrade its purification program. It is a never-ending struggle. Even as New Orleans officials were savoring their victory, a barge accident 50 miles upriver sent a 200,000-gal. oil slick floating toward town, forcing the shutdown of some water-intake facilities...