The engineers had resisted the launch, had recommended against it, citing the "blowby" in an earlier low-temperature launch and studies of the elasticity of the o-rings.

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"Almost no other country affects the United States as much on a day to day basis as Mexico, " said Shannon O'Neil, a Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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"It's hard to see how a cop will be able to leave the station house without some potential adverse impact on his personnel folder if it all goes into effect, " said Eugene O'Donnell, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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After a couple of years, Vincent O'Neill left the band to concentrate on his studies and was replaced by his brother Damian and by 1977, The Undertones had a set of finely rehearsed covers and became regulars at Derry's alternative nightspot The Casbah, where they developed a loyal following.

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"When you're paying for college, even a decrease in my final year will help, " said Ms. O'Mara, a studio-art and American-studies major who also holds a job on campus.

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In 2012 Ms. O Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies.

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Dow Corning went down because it didn't conduct any studies on silicone implants and could not refute any of the "science" that lawyers like John O'Quinn of Texas threw at it.

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