Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead heat, did the Mondale dreadnought realize it was sinking. "We were 'pretty surprised," said one top aide. "It happened in 48 hours. It was a trend we couldn't get hold of." As worried aides analyzed the plummeting polls, they began praying for clear weather. A snowstorm would keep home elderly voters and complacent party regulars, Mondale's core constituency...
...film centers around a holiday vacation, in which two middle-aged friends. Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) escape to Rio to offset their mid-life crises with some warn weather adventure. When the movie opens, Victor is already in the midst of a divorce, while Matthew receives a rude awakening when packing with his wife Karen, (Valerie Harper) for Rio. Karen informs Matthew that he cannot put his snorkeling equipment in her suitcase because she has decided to go to Club Med to think their marriage over...
...that will be 250 ft. high and weigh 3,000 tons when it reaches completion in late 1984. Approaching the launch pad from a direction opposite to the service tower, it will neatly "mate," as the engineers like to put it, with the other building to form an enclosed, weather-protected space where the rest of the shuttle vehicle can be assembled. Like the tower, the assembly building will have a crane in its roof. Together the two machines can hoist the empty, 154.4-ft.-long, 69,000-lb. external tank of a future shuttle into place between the stacks...
...system called for a tolerance limit of as much as ¼ in. in fitting the orbiter to the tank. NASA said no, setting the maximum permissible degree of variation at a minuscule ³¹/iooo³¹∕¹ººº in. "With the wind and the weather at Slick Six, we knew we could never get it down to that," says Major Ronald L. Peck, Vandenberg's chief of public affairs. "So they went back to the drawing boards and came up with the Shuttle Assembly Building. We call it our $40 million one-sixteenth...
...crunch. Says he: "If a crisis develops that would cause a serious downturn in the economy, we should do what is necessary to remedy this. But you have to realize that the cost of such action can be renewed inflation." A jump in food costs brought on by bad weather caused the consumer price index to jump .6% in January, its steepest gain in nine months, but most economists remain hopeful that inflation will stay moderate this year...