Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs of vitality were evident at Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week. To the cheers of hundreds of workers, the redesigned 85-ton orbiter Discovery was rolled into the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building to be attached to the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching pad 39B and poised for launch in late August or September. "The test results look good. The hardware looks great," said Deputy Operations Director Robert Crippen...
Thus the watchword at NASA these days is caution. More than 200 modifications have been made to the orbiter alone, and dozens of others to the rocket boosters and the fuel tank. Would-be whistle blowers are encouraged to / report problems anonymously right to the top. "The real challenge," says Richard Truly, NASA associate administrator for space flight, "is to make sure we don't strangle ourselves with being worried excessively about safety...
...example, agency officials had to make a decision about a potential danger if a flight had to be aborted shortly after lift-off. What would happen, asked NASA analysts, if one or more of the valves that allow the liquid fuels to flow from the external tank into the orbiter's main engines failed to shut after the tank was jettisoned? The thrust from leaking fuel, they feared, could cause the orbiter and tank to collide. Since the shuttle's computer is not programmed to identify which valves have failed, the astronauts would not know how to maneuver their craft...
Joseph Schultz and part of the staff from his Santa Cruz restaurant India Joze brought a stylishly funky note to the surroundings with their futuramic booth and black tank tops, to say nothing of Schultz's battered, Indiana Jones-type fedora. Schultz describes himself as a culinary anthropologist. He has traveled the world gathering recipes and evaluating food customs, most especially in Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Greece. His lacy, crisp, fried calamari tentacles in skordalia, the Greek garlic-and-walnut sauce, sold at a great rate, as did the chili-spiced Thai marinated squid. "I have lots of other...
Janet Wells took over the Sistersville Tank Works in West Virginia to save her job. Wells, a bookkeeper, bought the company in 1984 in partnership with her daughter Darlene just as the firm was about to fold. Says Wells: "The men didn't think we would last for six weeks. But there weren't any other jobs around, so they stuck with us." The company, which builds storage tanks and provides field services for Amoco, DuPont, Union Carbide and other clients, has more than tripled its sales under the ownership of the two women, from $1 million...