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Rather than eliminate most weapons, the Pentagon will probably stretch out production runs, which will end up being more expensive in the long term. In addition, research and development, which has blossomed under the Reagan spigot, may come under fire, perhaps even threatening the future of the Star Wars initiative. As in past years, training, spare parts and operations may suffer most because cuts in these areas are less visible than the abandonment of entire weapons systems. Says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger: "We will see a decline in readiness." Pentagon officials hope that Congress will be flexible in imposing...
Aside from the feces crisis, there were a number of space glitches, none of them momentous. A drinking-water spigot temporarily stuck, leaving the crew so thirsty that some proposed to use the water in their survival-kit rations. The crew successfully spun off one satellite that will aid air-traffic control, but they were unable to launch another that could have assisted the Defense Department in tracking submarines. Reason: the apparent failure, possibly due to weak batteries, of a microswitch on the door of the canister housing the satellite. Other frustrations included a sticky latch on an air lock...
...growth rate dropped to 1.6% in the July-September quarter, but the slowdown came too late to have much impact on the election. Moreover, the Federal Reserve realized that it had been too stringent and opened up the money-supply spigot. That helped send the prime rate down to 10.75% by late December. In the fourth quarter, growth picked up to an estimated 2.8% pace. Concluded Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "This year the economy came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb...
...television, but Ernie Knox went in a more usual way, before 869 people in a crumbling coliseum in Baltimore. That was about 20 years ago. Recalled Mr. Mack: "I said, 'Ernie, we better go to the hospital.' Water was pouring off him like a spigot. Ernie didn't have a mother or father, just brothers. If Ernie got into trouble, the phone rang here. But it didn't ring much. Ernie was good. He went into a coma at 2:30 in the morning. I stayed with him in the hospital two days, and then...
...hard to get people to make a committment to a life of science when every three years the spigot can be shut off and close down their research," Leaf said...