Word: defectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cortright's investigators are looking into all conceivable causes of the explosion. But most top NASA officials already think that the blast was probably the result of a defect in one of the two double-walled oxygen tanks. Under the extremes of pressure (920 lbs. per sq. in.) and temperature (-297° F.) inside the tanks, they say, a fragment of metal-perhaps a rivet or a piece from an internal cooling fan-could have flaked off. As this chip sheared away, there may have been a spark or another kind of combustion, Dr. Rocco Petrone, director...
...Harry is out of step." No one seems to realize that better than Byrd himself. In 1966 he won the nomination to serve out his father's unexpired sixth term by only 8,200 votes. This year he faced determined Democratic opposition in the primary. His decision to defect removed him from a contest that he was likely to lose and assured him a place on the ballot for the general election in November...
...most glaring defect in discussion of the Pill has been the slight attention, if any, given to the failure of too many U.S. doctors to study their patients before prescribing it. When a woman aged 15 to 45 asks a physician for the Pill, she is almost invariably handed a prescription that is often, in practice, refillable indefinitely. This is bad medicine. A conscientious doctor will ask the woman, if he does not already know, whether she has had any blood tests, and whether they showed anything unusual about her blood sugar or clotting. Has she had high blood pressure...