Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: Mir is adrift once more after a failure of the space station's main computer. The systems shut-down occurred while a cargo ship was docking. Now the troubled space station's solar panels are no longer pointed at the sun, leaving its rickety body wobbling and unoriented and its crew in the dark...
...after the June crash. U.S. astronaut Michael Foale will not participate in either operation, but instead has been instructed to camp inside the Soyuz escape capsule until a space shuttle mission picks him up in September. Having survived emergencies ranging from flash fires and a collision to being set adrift in space with last week's power failure, the two frazzled Russian crew members are looking forward to landing on Earth by August...
...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
...News has hit troubles on several fronts. After eight years of ratings dominance, Peter Jennings' evening newscast, World News Tonight, has been overtaken in recent weeks by the snazzier, more cleverly packaged NBC Nightly News. Creatively too, ABC's flagship newscast seems adrift, first softening the show to combat NBC, more recently retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats...
...return of the man who was bold, decisive and committed to sweeping change. Now, some presidential aides have come to refer to their diminished leader as Yeltsin Number Two, says Quinn-Judge. "It was the second Yeltsin, whose indecision and inactivity throughout 1994 and 1995, who has left Russia adrift." And these days are no better: the government is largely run either by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin or presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, leaving the largest country in the world on hold. Economic growth remains negative, while millions of people are still without their government pensions or pay. Until...