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...space agency has also been forced to delay until 1988 a project to orbit Venus with a satellite that will scan its cloud-veiled surface with radar beams. In 1986, Halley's comet, perhaps a chunk of debris left over from the early solar system, will return to the earth's vicinity for the first time since 1910. So far the space agency has been unable to scratch up the money for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intercept this visitor from deep space with cameras and other scientific instruments. Says George Rathjens, former chief scientist...
...successor. Carter's personal papers filled 20 vans, which last week headed toward Georgia. His daily diaries, which he kept without break for four years, are complete, and he hopes in the next 30 days to land a book contract that will bring him a needed chunk of money...
...rest was dissipated through a network of corporations; part went for commissions to tax-shelter salesmen and payoffs to business associates, part into other deals, and part was used to purchase such assets as a business jet, a Ferrari and several Rolls-Royces. Investigators believe that a sizable chunk of the money may remain salted away in Swiss bank accounts. Further indictments might be handed down against some investors, who knew that the transactions were a sham...
...began for Jimmy Carter in Cleveland, the analysts surmised in the quadrennial post-mortems. The huge "undecided" chunk of the American electorate, dissatisfied with its choice and unhappy with its leader, drifted to the right and settled in Reagan's column...
Inclusion of the buildings on the register would "reduce Harvard's ability to have sites for new construction," University planner Supratik Bose said yesterday, adding, "It's a large enough chunk and a serious enough chunk of land that it deserves a looking...