Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington hands can tell you that Sputnik changed the capital for good that night. There were suggestions that the U.S. declare a national emergency and conduct an all-out effort to catch up. "Know thine enemy" became the slogan of the day, and schools began offering courses in Russian. The race to conquer the heavens predated even the cold war; when Soviet and American troops entered Germany, they scanned their lists of prisoners for rocket scientists they could trundle home. But Sputnik launched the race right into the heart of the superpower rivalry, where it has remained ever since...
...taking over. The Vanguard was hurried, and when its engine was finally ignited in December 1957, the slender missile lurched and exploded. John Hagen's kindly eyes wept with no tears. Senator Lyndon Johnson raged, "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's satellites...
...somebody can just tell me how to catch up," Kennedy complained one < night to his staff. "Let's find somebody--anybody, I don't care if it's the janitor, if he knows how." Kennedy fidgeted, ran his hand through his hair, grimaced at the news that it would take $40 billion and ten years to get a man on the moon--and then he might be greeted by a Soviet cosmonaut. But frontiers are not conquered by cost accountants. Kennedy left the meeting and went into the Oval Office. In a few minutes his aide Ted Sorensen came...
...itched to explore a world beyond and above his own. Irene Jones, his first- grade teacher, remembered him as a bright loner who, on the playground, would "lie flat on his back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching...
Whether it is diet Coke, new Coke, classic Coke, cherry Coke or some other soda, more soft-drink fans buy something sold by Coca-Cola than by any other beverage maker. No. 2 PepsiCo keeps trying hard to catch up, and last week the company may have found a way to do so. Pepsi announced an agreement to buy Seven-Up, the third-largest soft-drink manufacturer, from Philip Morris for $380 million. As part of the deal, Philip Morris retains Seven-Up's bottling plants and food division. By adding Seven-Up's 7% share of the $26 billion...