Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yacht, Sundowner. An "Affordable Fantasy" on- board wedding is $5,500, and a "Cloud Nine" prices out at $9,999, which includes the cost of 99 white pigeons sent heavenward at an appropriately celebratory moment. Don't call about next week, though. The ship is booked solid until October...
...medication and later put the pieces back together. So far, though, single-piece capsules can hold only liquid drugs. Reason: the medication cannot pass through the special machinery used to make single-piece capsules unless it is in liquid form. Most over-the-counter medication comes in powder or solid-pellet form...
NASA had carefully tracked the O-ring problem on paper since 1978, some three years before the first shuttle flight, on April 12, 1981. As early as Jan. 19, 1979, John Q. Miller, chief of the solid motor branch at Marshall, where the boosters were developed, complained to his superiors that the seal was functioning "in a way which violates industry and Government O-ring application practices." On May 29, 1980, a NASA engineering panel noted that the O rings had failed in a ground test and called them "inadequate" for reliability and "marginal" in their safety...
...Marshall managers grew tired of dealing with so many open problems listed for the shuttle that they asked Morton Thiokol to try to winnow the items. Brian Russell, Thiokol's manager of special projects for the boosters, promptly filed a memo last Dec. 6 to the director of the solid-rocket project at Thiokol, recommending that the O-ring erosion be dropped from the critical- problems list. Mysteriously, an unsigned paper produced by Marshall's problem- assessment system declared that "this problem is considered closed" on Jan. 23, just five days before the Challenger launch. Although others still were watching...
...allay investor concern. Said he in the National Assembly: "The Bourse has risen enormously. From time to time, people catch their breath." But after Balladur's speech, prices recovered only slightly. Market experts in Paris ascribed the slowdown to an impatient mood among investors, who are waiting for more solid economic results before pushing prices higher...