Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policies." For weeks there had been rumors that Her Majesty was not amused by divisions within the 49-member Commonwealth over Thatcher's refusal to consider sanctions against South Africa. But the Sunday Times's story went further. It charged that "the Queen considers the Prime Minister's approach often to be uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive." Specifically, the report continued, the monarch feels that the Thatcher government "lacks compassion" and that its policies threaten to "undermine the consensus in British politics that has served the country well" since World...
...biographical approach is far more successful in The Long Night of Lady Day, a lovely portrait of the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Using old film footage, stills, recordings and interviews with friends and colleagues, the documentary traces a tragic life, from Holiday's troubled childhood (at a girls' institution, she was once punished by being locked overnight in a room with a corpse) through her angry encounters with racism to the mounting drug problems that eventually killed her at age 44. The research is impressive; witnesses range from Bandleader Artie Shaw to the warden's secretary at the federal...
...California desert wind was gusty last week, and the chase plane radioed the pilot that he was coming in a little high on final approach to Mojave Airport, 75 miles north of Los Angeles. But Dick Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without...
...report said space agency engineers are working on a completely new design for the booster rockets which caused the Jan. 28 Challenger explosion, as a contingency in case no other approach is found suitable for the joint seals on the boosters...
...reason we are doing it is that if we get into testing and we should have a test failure that shows our design analysis was inadequate, we'd have head start on an alternate approach," Truly said. "However, everybody that's been involved in the redesign believes there is a design available with the present hardware...