Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next morning on the flight line, these guardian angels suck in liters of pure oxygen, trying desperately to burn the alcohol out of their system before take-off time. Sure, you might die, but you're living life the way it's got to be lived...
...schools, hospitals and the economy. The warm affection that most Nicaraguans feel for North Americans does not extend to the Reagan Administration, which Nicaraguans believe is preparing for an invasion of their country. "The U.S. military aggression," says Eric Ramirez, president of the opposition Social Christian Party, "gives oxygen for the Sandinistas to survive...
...while she was pregnant with their first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen was inadvertently cut off, causing irreversible brain damage. Nancy Jobes has been in a coma ever since, sustained by a feeding tube in a New Jersey nursing home. John, together with Nancy's parents and siblings, wants to have the feeding tube removed, but faces a battery of legal and medical...
...separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...report, ABC cited an internal National Aeronautics and Space Administration memo by Arnold Aldrich, manager of the shuttle project in Houston, that said an operator at Cape Canaveral inadvertently dumped 18,000 pounds of liquid oxygen from the shuttle's external fuel tank...