Word: troubleshooter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their separate political reasons, the principal moderates and hard-liners agree that no arms-control czar should be appointed. But McFarlane talked last week of finding someone "to advise, to troubleshoot and to be a designated hitter that could assure momentum is sustained." The White House favorite for the job is Paul Nitze, the chief negotiator at the INF talks. Yet he is opposed by the Pentagon hawks. In Moscow, one Soviet expert on U.S. relations smiled at the Washington jargon-czar-but said with a sigh, "When Kissinger was making these decisions in the Nixon years, then we were...
...every right to be proud. With that uneventful touchdown, NASA could claim a strikingly successful debut for Discovery, the newest member of its three-shuttle fleet. For six exhausting days on Flight 41D, six astronauts tackled the busiest shuttle agenda ever, twice staying up past their assigned bedtimes to troubleshoot glitches. Every task, however, from knocking a pesky hunk of ice off the ship's hull to operating manually a drugmaking machine that was supposed to be controlled by computers, was completed on time...