Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...envisioned, the mission to collect samples would require separate U.S. and Soviet launches. With their heavy-lift launcher Energia, which can boost payloads at least three times as great as those on the U.S. shuttle, the Soviets would provide an extra capability to ensure sufficient backup fuel supplies. They believe they can deploy a space shield or parachute to slow their spacecraft enough to enable it to enter orbit around Mars without the use of retrorockets that draw on precious fuel supplies. Soviet scientists concede that this "aerobreaking" technique is still experimental...
...knowledge of a few secret codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks in Vienna. Before the gang could collect its loot, First Chicago discovered the fraud and alerted the FBI, which last week located the money and arrested Taylor and six alleged coconspirators on charges connected with illegal wire transfers. But the embezzlers came tantalizingly close to succeeding and showed how vulnerable banks and their vast computerized cash-movement networks...
Rambo III will collect a certain amount of contempt for projecting, at this ! late date, a ludicrous cold war stereotype -- the Soviet as gibbering sadist -- and a certain amount of comment for going into release just as the Soviets are withdrawing from Afghanistan. But what is the spirit of glasnost compared with the needs of a successful actor's ego and his fans' expectations? Somebody has to keep the priorities straight around here...
...Roger Machell, the author's British publishers. The young Salinger was full of strong opinions and pithy wisecracks. His view of U.S. publishing: "Everybody over here who's ever taught Senior English for a couple of semesters, or worked for a good upholsterer, has considered himself qualified to collect and edit a short story anthology...
...Quigley's identity, the socialite did attend an April 1985 state dinner at the White House in honor of the President of Algeria. For the most part, however, the two women talked by phone on weekends, when the Reagans were relaxing at Camp David. Periodically, Quigley would place a collect call to the White House switchboard, and Nancy would scurry to a private room to take it. A White House aide recalls a time when the First Lady was on two phones at once -- Quigley on one line and a presidential scheduler on the other. Quigley says...