Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen. Hauck, a water skier and car buff, enjoys tinkering with his 1958 Corvette. He is encouraged by NASA's overhaul since the Challenger debacle. "What went wrong?" he asks. "We didn't communicate well enough. Now we are talking much better than before. We need to ask ourselves tough questions...
Despite all the euphoria, some tough questions remained, not only about the future of the shuttle program but also about where the Discovery mission would lead the country's space program in the years ahead. Since the Challenger tragedy, America's lead over the Soviets has slipped, ambitious plans for scientific experiments in space have stalled, and commercial and military payloads have for the most part been grounded. Declared J.R. Thompson, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama: "One good launch doesn't make a space program, but it's a damn good start...
Today the harbor jobs pay up to $265 a day, which means a worker can make $45,000 to $55,000 a year. But the few jobs remaining are tough to get. As Bob's youngest son Paul, 26, who has had an application on file with the Longshoremen's Union for three years, explains, "They pass out 50,000 or 60,000 applications. They give 3,500 interviews. For about 300 jobs." Paul keeps updating his file, but has heard nothing...
Dukakis repetitively stresses the need to make tough choices on defense programs, such as slashing funds for the MX missile and the Strategic Defense Initiative. And he proposes a new government/business partnership in which the government will require private businesses to provide health insurance for every employee. In doing so he has sought to distance himself as much from Walter Mondale's campaign--in which the former vice president promised more taxes and economic concessions to virtually every special interest group under the sun--as from Reagan...
Intangibles: Harvard has not lost three games in a row since 1986, when it dropped four in a row. The Crimson faces a tough road schedule (games at Princeton and Penn) and needs a victory against Cornell to make those road trips less pressure-packed. Harvard is seeking revenge. Last year, Cornell won, 29-17, in Ithaca...