Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come Saturday, the grass might be greener and the weather might be warmer...
...tell him only what he already knows: slow times in the iron-mining business have pushed local unemployment up to around 15%, and a factory owner who is pulling out says Hibbing has gone Communist, by which he means that real estate taxes are too high. As to the weather, Hibbing natives need only gauge the speed with which their nostrils freeze to calculate that the temperature is 19 degrees below zero. There is snow on the ground but nothing too serious. "Just walk where they've plowed," says Travel Agent Sue Klobuchar, "and it'll only...
...corps had stayed stoically tight- lipped. When beleaguered NASA officials trotted out four shuttle veterans for a press conference last week, the astronauts expressed concern about the agency's conduct, but not condemnation. In particular, they reserved judgment on reports that NASA had failed to heed warnings that the weather on Jan. 28 was too cold to launch, leading to Challenger's destruction and the deaths of its seven crew members. "I'm not sitting here angry," said Astronaut Vance Brand. "If there was a mistake, that doesn't bring down the whole system...
NASA, meanwhile, continued to defend itself in the commission's public hearings at Cape Canaveral. NASA technicians speculated on a variety of reasons--other than the cold weather--why a joint in Challenger's right solid- fuel booster began leaking, spewing superhot gases and probably triggering the catastrophe. The commission seemed unimpressed. Chairman William Rogers urged NASA to include independent experts in making its evaluations. Otherwise, he protested, "The people running the tests, if successful, can prove that they were right all along...
...collisions of ego might be wonderful -- gridlocking motorcades as they move from villa to casino, colossal bribes to get the best table in the restaurant. St. Helena with a dozen Napoleons on it, huge solipsisms crashing into one another, interpenetrating, great weather balloons of malignant ego drifting in the subtropical breezes...