Word: sorenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Iowa farmer Janice Sorenson turned up a huge, windmill-shaped hunk of titanium while harvesting corn last week, she knew exactly what she had found. General Electric had distributed photos of the disk in its search for the cause of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 last July in Sioux City. The crash, which killed 112 passengers, has been blamed on the explosion of the jet's GE-made aft engine, which severed the aircraft's hydraulic control lines...
...after part because it served as the hub for the engine's turbine blades. Metallurgists who inspected the disk last week found a crack that appeared to have been present before the explosion and may have triggered it. From its total reward fund of $271,000, GE paid farmer Sorenson, 58, a bounty of $120,000 for her discovery...
...Sandra Sorenson, 42, is an astronomer who is quasi famous for having discovered a new planet in the solar system. She appears once a month on late- night British TV to discuss the universe, and has been dubbed "Starlady Sandra" by the tabloids. But recognition does not satisfy her, and neither does her husband Matthew, an ambitious lawyer and tepid bedmate ("What's good enough for missionaries is good enough for me"). So Sandra does what any woman in her fix would do: she runs off with Jack Stubbs, the trumpet player in a ragtag band called the Citronella Jumpers...
...really think this [federal ban on retirement] is going to be a major problem. I really think the big problem is going to be lack of people rather than too many people," says Aage B. Sorenson, head of the Sociology Department. "I think this actually is a good thing because there is going to be a lack of academic personnel...
...Paul Sorenson (Dartmouth...