Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That statement triggered the fury of Colorado's Republican Senator William Armstrong. "I'm dismayed by the conversation that has taken place here," he said. "My colleague from New York on the Senate floor has demagogued this issue from front to back and top to bottom and he is trying to do the same here," he said. "You've tried to emotionalize what should not be an emotional issue. We have done everything to avoid making this a partisan issue," Armstrong declared, just before charging that the proposal for the $40 billion cutback originated with the Democrats...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Herbert Armstrong, 89, autocratic founder of the Worldwide Church of God (membership: 68,000 tithing believers); and Ramona Armstrong, 44, his second wife; after five years; in Tucson, Ariz. They were married one year after Armstrong changed church laws against divorce and remarriage...
...computer, which determined the engines to be fired, and when, and for how long, took part of its own information from another computer on the ground. As the Apollo neared the moon, a computer triggered the firing of a descent rocket, slowed the lunar module, and then signaled Neil Armstrong that he had five seconds to decide whether or not to go ahead with the landing. At 7,200 ft., a computer commanded the jets to tilt the craft almost upright so that Armstrong and Aldrin could take a close look at what the world had been seeking for centuries...
...have shorter men in important positions. His humor helps him to avoid the arrogance that tends to accompany power. He is genuinely well liked, by Democrats as well as Republicans. "When you see him coming you start to feel better," says Colorado Republican William Armstrong...
...potential market of more than 40 million consumers watching their blood pressure or simply worried about salt, is already responding to the change. "Low-sodium sales are growing. Our own no-salt-added products are selling at 50% to 90% of the levels of regular brands," says Jane Armstrong, vice president of Jewel supermarkets. She also notes: "Whole families are cutting back in salt as the feeling grows that less sodium can't be harmful and may be healthy...