Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memorable scenes from the second half of the book is his portrayal of a teleconference which took place the night before the launch between engineers at Morton Thiokol, makers of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, and NASA officials. Thiokol's engineers spent almost an hour explaining why they believed that cold temperatures at Cape Canaveral would impair the performance of their now infamous O-rings. The Thiokol engineers voted unanimously to recommend against launching...
...their employers are now to be held accountable for insider transgressions, that development may be deserved. Many Wall Street firms have imposed unrealistic expectations on their traders and bankers without giving them a solid grounding in old-fashioned ethical values. By pushing salaries and bonuses to outlandish heights, investment firms have turned money into the ultimate measure of success. Declares Felix Rohatyn, senior partner of the investment firm Lazard Freres, in an essay for the New York Review of Books: "Too much money is coming together with too many young people who have little or no institutional memory, or sense...
While several statuesque thyroid cases share the Las Vegas pivot, the team is fundamentally centered if not completely built upon the solid 6-ft. 9-in. soft shooter and rugged rebounder Gilliam. A high school wrestler from Pittsburgh, he toyed with the notion of playing football at Clemson and embraced basketball last. "When you mention Las Vegas, people think of glitter," Gilliam says, "but glitter wears...
statistics : the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor trace only a space in the lives of their friends...
...also suspected of murdering his daughter and son-in-law, although their bodies have never been located.) But one is never quite certain of what actually happened. Both men maintain their innocence, even though Smith came close to boasting about the crime to a fellow inmate. Bradfield had a solid motive: $750,000 worth of insurance policies that Susan Reinert had taken out, naming him the beneficiary. (He had previously been convicted of stealing $25,000 from...