Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani held aloft at a New York City press conference last week looked just like one that a homeowner might use to pay the gas bill. But to Giuliani and dozens of other federal investigators, their check was a prized hunting trophy. Made out to the United States of America and drawn on Chase Manhattan Bank, the check for $113,018,306.71, along with other payments, concluded a 13-month tax-fraud prosecution of two companies controlled by fugitive Commodities Broker Marc Rich. The total settlement of nearly $200 million, said Giuliani, "represents the largest...
...down!" he repeated rapidly. "Coming down!" Beneath the plume of a red-and-white chute one morning last week, a capsule drifted earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to the arid steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan. The triumphant trio, who had been aloft since last February aboard an orbiting Soviet space station, were the possessors of a new space endurance record: a 237-day spin through the heavens.* A more important trophy was the cache of information gathered from experiments run on board their trailer-size Salyut 7 to determine the effects...
...that carried two visiting crews up and then back down again. The visitors chalked up a few firsts of their own. One craft, launched in April, carried the first Indian space traveler, Rakesh Sharma, who performed yoga exercises on board. A July ship brought Svetlana Savitskaya, who had been aloft in 1982 and this time became the first woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty valve assembly on the main propulsion engine. Says...
...must wear the fruit of the Spirit, so that people, when they see how we live, will be drawn to the Spirit within us." Christianity has survived atheist taunts, he said, "because the Gospel has its own power to change human lives." But when six youths bravely held aloft crude banners protesting the jailing of Soviet Christians, Graham made no public acknowledgment...
...ship each month for the rest of this year and eleven in 1985. A jubilant President Reagan has declared that the first nonpaying private passenger of some future shuttle would be an elementary or secondary school teacher. Still, NASA will not rule the skies uncontested; if anything, the competition aloft* is growing more fierce: the European Space Agency is becoming an increasingly aggressive contender for commercial cargo and the Pentagon is planning to divert some of its space payloads to its own expendable rockets. But despite some past stumbling, NASA officials vow to prevail. The proud new ship Discovery...