Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction to the film, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Stanley Cavell told the audience that despite their enduring popularity, the romantic comedies of the 1930s are "vastly underrated," in that they are usually considered to be only "good, solid American entertainment" rather than works...
...establish congeniality in the commission," he said last week, looking back on four solid months of some of the most intensive work he has ever done. "We had to pick people who fit the work for the different parts of the investigation. We called on everyone. We listened to everybody. And they wrote the report. It may be a little uneven, but that is worth...
Within days the mechanical problem was located: a joint on one of Challenger's two solid rocket boosters had failed. But the root cause of the tragedy ran deeper. A presidential commission, headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers, discovered NASA itself was deeply flawed. Far from representing the best of American know-how, the twelve-member commission found, NASA had become a bureaucracy that had lost its way. Before the first shuttle was launched, the agency had known of the fatal seal problem but had buried it under a blizzard of paper while permitting schedule-conscious managers...
...plentiful that it masked rather than exposed the problems. The Rogers report is expected to detail the extraordinary tale of the now famous O rings, the synthetic-rubber circles, .28 in. thick and 37.5 ft. in circumference, designed to make certain that the superhot gases generated within each solid booster could not escape through the joints of the rocket's segments. When flames did penetrate a rocket joint on Challenger, they ignited the shuttle's external liquid-fuel tank, causing the explosion. The commission will cite the O-ring history not only as the cause of the catastrophe but also...
Months ago, it was widely speculated that Princeton Professor Roy Mottehedah would be a solid choice to provide such leadership. Although the University has lured Mottehada from Princeton with a lifetime post, sources close to the decision say the expert on medieval Islam does not want to assume a major administrative position for at least two years while he fulfills obligations to Princeton...