Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scorer," admits Ohno, who's nonetheless tallied seven goals and 10 assists this year. "We [the three forwards on Ohno's line] are expected to contribute in scoring, but we have to play solid defensive hockey first...
...campaign heads for the homestretch, the only safe prediction is that France is probably headed for a period of political instability. Barring a Socialist upset, the least ambiguous course seems to lie in a solid rightist victory. Chirac might then take over as Premier. But that outcome would lead to a power struggle between Mitterrand and Chirac that might go on for two years, or until the next presidential election. Mitterrand could, for instance, dissolve parliament and plunge the country into further political disarray. He could also resign, a course that he has threatened to pursue if his presidential powers...
...week's end that solid front was cracking, and the astronauts were firing off criticism as damning to NASA's reputation as any yet heard. Astronaut Sally Ride, a member of the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, was the first to speak out publicly. Until the agency solves its safety problems, "I'm not ready to fly again," said Ride. "I think that there are very few astronauts who are ready." A more pointed reproach was made public Saturday, when the Houston Post printed a memo sent to space-program officials by Chief Astronaut John Young on March...
NASA, meanwhile, continued to defend itself in the commission's public hearings at Cape Canaveral. NASA technicians speculated on a variety of reasons--other than the cold weather--why a joint in Challenger's right solid- fuel booster began leaking, spewing superhot gases and probably triggering the catastrophe. The commission seemed unimpressed. Chairman William Rogers urged NASA to include independent experts in making its evaluations. Otherwise, he protested, "The people running the tests, if successful, can prove that they were right all along...
...Astronomer Fred Whipple, 79, another American who journeyed to Moscow, the image was further confirmation of his 1950 "dirty snowball" theory, which holds that a comet has a small, solid core of ice and dust. "The fact that the comet's image came out with a bright center shows we were seeing the nucleus," he said. "If that were simply dust, we wouldn't see the irregularities...