Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...entire staff arrives at 6 p.m. and divides up to scrub, mop, and vacuum Larsen Hall...
...that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras and lights are mounted on the outside, as are racks to hold buckets for samples grasped by the robotic arm or sucked up by a vacuum tube...
...incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent guidelines could create "a news vacuum in which rumors and distortions, from whatever quarter, will prevail...
...exercise required close coordination between earth and space. Astronauts Sally Ride and Mary Cleave, who are experienced with the robot arm, practiced flipping a replica of the switch at Mission Control. Other technicians tested duplicates of the manipulators in a special vacuum chamber to make sure they would withstand the airless chill of outer space...
...however, mindful that their 27 percent of the Assembly counts for far more in this one moment when a two-thirds majority is required than it will ever count for again, are digging in their heels. And so, the deadlock persists, and threatens to create a long-term power vacuum...