Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Unsuitable Workmanship Flaws that canceled the space walks during Columbia's flight...
...think what's most disturbing about success is that it's very hazardous to your health, as well as to your daily routine. Not only are there intrusions on your time, but there is a kind of corrosion of your own humility and sense of necessary workmanship. You get the idea that anything you do is in some way marvelous...
...that he knows full well what will be expected of him as a mature ruler. The notion that he is a pretender as well as the Pretender has upset many critics (Quiller-Couch went so far as to brand the speech Shakespeare's "most damnable piece of workmanship"). But it can make sense of one perceives that there are two Hals. Good OF Hal, and the Prince (it is instructive to compare the off stage and on-stage Mozart...
...Justice Department for overrun claims. Navy Secretary John Lehman last August called the costs a "rip-off." But early this year charges were dropped, and Lehman said the Navy has contracted with Electric Boat to build six more Tridents because the company had improved its controls on workmanship and materials...
...later passage, Hoving confesses to contemplating theft. Visiting Florence's Bargello, a sculpture museum, he spies an ivory plaque with the same distinctive workmanship as the cross. Knowing he must feel the ivory piece in his hands to examine it, and reluctant to petition for permission, he slickly unscrews the case in the absence of the guard. "For an instant," he concedes, "I even thought the unthinkable...