Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulty. At Florida's Kennedy Space Center, an 1,800-pound spacecraft known as Voyager 2 was launched atop a Titan-Centaur rocket and aimed at Jupiter, 579 million miles and nearly two years away. Voyager 2 was hardly aloft, however, before it reported a malfunction in the boom that carries a key package of TV cameras and scientific instruments...
...boom extended after lift-off on schedule, but apparently failed to lock. That complicated the mission and cast an initial pall over an impressive $500 million program. Voyager 2 is to be followed on Sept. 1 by Voyager 1, a similar spacecraft so numbered because it will reach Jupiter four months earlier than Voyager 2 on a different trajectory...
...left (as well as the right) is in exile. But many Panamanians, perhaps unrealistically, look to the treaty to cure many of their national ills?including a zero growth rate. Says Nicolas Ardito Barletta, Minister of Planning and Economic Policy: "This will create a perfect situation for a lasting boom...
...power base won't break. The British are saying that the freedom fighters should be frozen in place here, and the Smith forces over there, and then there should be an election, and then the British will back off. And what do you suppose would happen then? Boom! This is why I want to talk security first...
...long-awaited substantial boost in spending by businessmen-which could be beginning. Last month the Commerce Department disclosed that companies plan to spend $135 billion this year on new plant and equipment-about 12.3% more than was actually spent in 1976. Even so, no one expects a capital spending boom; businessmen remain unusually wary about the staying power of this recovery and have been keeping their wallets buttoned up much longer than they have at this stage of earlier postwar business cycles. Indeed, some economists are suggesting that reduced capital spending could become a more or less permanent feature...