Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is coming off a solid performance Saturday against Boston College. The Crimson had a seven-point halftime lead, but tired in the second half against the Eagles and fell short...
...really frustrating with this type of game," MacDonald said. "We really wanted to score and put the game away. All around it was a solid effort...
Another significant difference in the shuttle systems concerns the boosters. The U.S. orbiter is lifted by two recoverable solid rocket boosters and its own three main engines, a system designed exclusively for shuttle missions. Buran piggybacks on the l97-ft.-high Energia, the world's largest operational booster rocket -- a multipurpose powerhouse designed to lift shuttles or unmanned spacecraft weighing up to 100 tons. "Energia could be said to be a much smarter system than what we've got, since it could take anything up," says Seth Arenstein, editor of Soviet Aerospace magazine...
What many scientists do dispute, however, is whether the potential intellectual rewards are worth the cost -- especially given widespread fears that the SSC would rob funding from other research. "It's good science," says Princeton's Philip Anderson, a Nobel laureate for his work in solid-state physics, "but we can learn equally fundamental things in other areas of physics and with a lot less money." And while proponents say the SSC would spark a resurgence of national interest in research that would benefit all sciences, M.I.T. physicist Daniel Kleppner fears that smaller projects simply are not glamorous enough...