Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some important science, but much of its research program appeared headed out the window. "I'd been working on this for almost two decades," says Bahcall. "I was devastated...
...with heart problems, BORIS YELTSIN sure is frisky. As he arrived at what was supposed to be a press conference regarding his coming summit meeting with President Clinton, Yeltsin playfully tweaked two female secretaries. One woman, startled by this gesture of fellowship, sat bolt upright and spun around; the other barely reacted. The oddball presidential games over, the gathering got serious. Yeltsin announced that he was firing his Foreign Minister; the following day he changed his mind...
...person] took the bolt out of the wall, put the TV in a box and carried it out," said Buzney, noting that the bolt had been pulled out of the wall and the box the TV came in was gone...
...PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE'' IS A brilliant case for continued funding of the arts agencies-and more funding, not less. It passionately spells out the incredible shortsightedness and downright stupidity of those who oppose them. JONATHAN BOLT New York City
...skeptics who forced the crisis, but the many conservative M.P.s who are wavering over Major's record as Prime Minister and the Tories' precipitous decline in the polls. The Conservatives trail Labour by 39 points, according to one poll, and with seats and parliamentary careers at stake, many could bolt for a more voter-friendly leader. Says a conservative M.P. privately: "The main problem is that this government is incompetent and indecisive. Its policies keep changing. It even fails to publicize the positive things it has done, so people think it's a complete failure...