Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hellish orange-and-white fireball that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean two years ago this week, killing seven crew members and shutting down the U.S. manned space program. Pressures to launch had led to what the Rogers commission later called NASA's "silent safety program," in which defects were overlooked and engineering cautions brushed aside. Yet as NASA and its many contractors now rush to correct the ! shuttle's potentially fatal weaknesses and resume launches by July, there are signs that the lesson of the Challenger tragedy has not been wholly heeded...
Advertising is creative for soccer on European television. There are little five-second silent advertisements when the Michelin man rolls a tire across the screen or a toothpaste logo apears out of nowhere. These ads let the 45-minute halves proceed uninterrupted. Failing that, the ads can take up all of halftime instead of splicing 30-second commercials during action. After all, in soccer, the action is continuous and doesn't lend itself to TV timeouts...
When the votes are all tallied and the goodbyes said and the clasps of work- thickened hands finished, the lingering flavor of the Iowa caucuses in the chill February night will be rich brownies and giant chunks of fudge mixed with laughter and hugs for neighbors and the silent thanks for the right to do what they have just done. The people of this down-to-earth state will have made the first significant declaration to the world about whom the American electorate has in mind to be the next President. Serious business...
Measuring 353 ft. from stem to stern and a potbellied 40 ft. across at the waist, the U.S. Navy's proposed SSN-21 Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine looks more like a whale with a weight problem than a swift and silent undersea marauder. Yet when the first of a projected 30 Seawolfs sets to sea in 1995, her proponents hope she will live up to her name by proving to be a deadly hunter-killer beneath the waves. "The Seawolf," says the Navy's top submariner, Vice Admiral Bruce DeMars, "will be the supersub of the 21st century...
Outside yesterday's meeting, almost 100 students, including members of the Black Student Union and a campus Hispanic group, held a silent vigil in favor of the change. Many students held posters with the name of a book and an author not included in the program's core list of 15 books, Katz said...