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"Even at that point, however, a senior Thiokol official at Cape Canaveral refused to endorse the recommendation," the Post quoted an unidentified commission member as saying. "This shook us to the socks. We were unprepared for it. It changed the whole tone of the investigation."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Producer of Booster Balked at Launch | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

On-campus interviews should be only one part of your overall job hunting strategy. When interviewing at the Office of Career Services (OCS), make appointments with only those companies that interest you. Interviewing with companies "just for practice" wastes your time an opportunity another student might have used. Unprepared job...

Author: By John Noble, | Title: Prepare, prepare, prepare for that interview | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

"The party's legitimacy," says one government official, "will come from the success of its policies. As the country becomes stronger, so too will the party." As Leader Deng sees it, that means retiring many of the older officials and replacing them with better-educated, better-qualified young technocrats. Yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Revolution | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

That social goal was achieved at the cost of great disruption: the inner-city whites, many of Irish or Italian descent, resented what they viewed as upper- class suburban values imposed on them. Black children were unprepared for the surge in hostility, and the schools were turned into fortresses. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Experiment in Black and White Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

The Twilight Zone, by contrast, will offer mostly new segments (two to three per hour) based on stories by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; the directors include William Friedkin, Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Robert Downey (Putney Swope). The show has the difficult task of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Old Habits, New Formats | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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