Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reinartz testified that he had never told Aldrich, his launch-command superior, about the discussion with Thiokol or about that firm's original opposition to the flight. He argued that since the issue had been resolved, there was no need to do so. When Mulloy took the same position, a commissioner, Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, observed bitingly, "If this was an airplane and I just had a fight with Boeing over whether the wing could fall off, I think I'd tell the pilot." Reinartz explained that he had informed his boss, William Lucas, director of the Marshall...
...appointed to monitor the quality of care at military hospitals around the country. Though many problems remain, the Pentagon, asserts David Newhall III, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, "now has more extensive quality review than civilian medicine." If nothing else, Commander Billig has provided his superior officers with a painful but much needed lesson...
...Assembly issued a statement last week warning that the war threatens the stability of the entire region. A Saudi diplomat went so far as to declare that his country was in "imminent danger." While U.S. officials share the Gulf states' concern, State Department analysts are confident that Iraq's superior firepower will prevail. Still, the U.S. has warned Iran that any incursion into Kuwait would, in the words of one Administration official, "be regarded as directly affecting U.S. interests...
...lost to Dartmouth and Harvard in the same season since 1973-'74. FINAL CCHA STANDINGS Team W L T Pts GF GA Michigan St. 23 7 2 48 177 124 Bowl. Green 23 9 0 46 179 129 W. Michigan 23 9 0 46 188 138 L. Superior 17 14 1 35 133 12 4 Ohio State 16 15 1 33 157 177 Ferris St. 13 17 2 28 152 174 Ill.-Chicago 12 20 0 24 137161 Michigan 10 22 0 20 151 18 4 Miami-Ohio...
...army has launched a major rainy-season offensive across the marshlands of Al Huwaiza, north of the Iraqi city of Basra on the Shatt al Arab waterway. This year, on the anniversary of the day the Ayatullah Khomeini took power in 1979, the Iranians struck again. In the past, superior Iraqi armor and air power have repulsed waves of often youthful Iranian invaders. This time Iranian troops undertook a surprise offensive farther south, enabling Iran to claim at least a momentary psychological victory in the 5 1/2-year-old...