Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basis. Besides, Thompson was told, the cosmonauts hate shaving and making all the other preparations required before meeting the press. "My pen doesn't take pictures," Thompson replied; all he wanted was a brief chat. In the end, and in the new spirit of glasnost, Thompson was granted rare access to the Soviet Flight Control Center in Kaliningrad. There, through an interpreter, he communicated with the orbiting cosmonauts during a brief period in which they were in contact with earth. The clarity of the transmission was astonishing, Thompson reports. "There was no static...
...director took some unprecedented and risky steps. He brought talented Jewish scientists into the institute. He began building a corps of young scientists and selecting projects based on their scientific value rather than the political standing of scientists. He fought for access to computers. Most important, and politically the riskiest, he introduced a potent measure of democracy into the Soviet program. "Before Sagdeyev," says Louis Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Planetary Society, "the Soviet space program was closed. Now they talk about their plans. They even argue in public. He has materially changed the way they do major projects...
...perks? Free access to Buffalo Bills training camp isn't exactly uplifting. My closest contact with a sports personality was a coast-to-coast phone interview with Roy Firestone...
...concept of Glasnost is exciting, and it shows the possibility of dynamics where there have been no dynamics for years," said speaker David E. Powell, a fellow it the Russian Research Center. "It is wonderful for the Soviet citizens as it allows them access to cultural experiences they have been denied and brings them more in touch with the world and the Westerners...
Normally, the collegiate academic records of alumni are kept sealed for a period of 80 years in the Pusey Library archives where approximately "half a dozen" members of the staff "might potentially have access" to the records, according to Kathleen A. Markees, curatorial associate of the archives...