Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy" is more nebulous. Basically, he would coordinate disparate Government policies (banking regulations, tax laws, research-and-development funding) according to one grand strategy. Some of his specific economic plans are reasonable enough, but others seem almost too clever, as if the candidate acquired ideas wholesale from a think-tank catalogue. Hart recommends bold agreements between labor, industrial management and Wall Street. Fine, but he practically ignores the political and bureaucratic impediments. It might be a good idea to set up a presidential Council on Emerging Issues to address long-term economic strategy, but Hart's high hopes...
...will operate Slick Six, plans to fly up to ten missions annually. Another point in Vandenberg's favor: shuttles will be launched due south and will fly over Antarctica as well as vast stretches of water, regions where the craft's solid-fuel rocket boosters and external tank can be safely jettisoned...
...with the other building to form an enclosed, weather-protected space where the rest of the shuttle vehicle can be assembled. Like the tower, the assembly building will have a crane in its roof. Together the two machines can hoist the empty, 154.4-ft.-long, 69,000-lb. external tank of a future shuttle into place between the stacks of rocket boosters. Clearance on each side: less than ¼ in. The final element in the assembly, the main body of the shuttle, or orbiter, is mounted on the external tank by means of a double crane...
...semienclosed environment of the service tower, with the tower's crane and a second device, called a strongback, attached to the Launch Mount Tower, to perform all the hoisting. The system called for a tolerance limit of as much as ¼ in. in fitting the orbiter to the tank. NASA said no, setting the maximum permissible degree of variation at a minuscule ³¹/iooo³¹∕¹ººº in. "With the wind and the weather at Slick Six, we knew we could never get it down to that," says Major Ronald L. Peck, Vandenberg...
...enjoyed everything about college life." What a change now. "Our oldest son went to Williams in 1969, long after the end of the fraternity system, and when we spent some time there at various events, we found the change obvious and distressing. The college had become a think tank, grades were everything, and worst of all the students appered to be a joyless lot indeed...