Word: deploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind on Wednesday night, to orbit the moon in the command module Odyssey while Lovell and Haise make their scheduled descent in the lunar module Aquarius to land near Fra Mauro. Stopping 500 ft. or so west of their spacecraft on their first moon walk (see diagram), they will deploy a set of nuclear-powered experiments that should radio data to earth for at least a year. Their equipment will include two ingenious new devices to pry more secrets from the moon as well as the space around...
...want graffiti." explained Theodore Alevizos, associate University librarian for reference and circulation. "We would like to preserve them for future scholars and anthropologists. We just want to encourage these people to deploy their creative talents on the paper rather than on our elevator walls...
There seems little reason to believe that the situation will improve. The Nixon Administration has demonstrated no readiness to push for tougher laws, shown no desire to deploy any massive manpower resources. Ironically, Stennis, admittedly more interested in relieving pressure on the South than in achieving desegregation in the North, offers a chance for change. He is threatening to push a bill that would make existence of a black-majority school within any largely white system prima facie evidence of segregation. His move, which could mean a loss of federal funds for racially imbalanced school districts, needs both Northern...
...shouldn't have told us. If Nixon hears that it is possible that Red China could deploy an intercontinental subterranean earthquake [Dec. 19], he might feel an uncontrollable urge to deploy counter-platforms. That would mean years of costly research to find out the right height for the platforms and the proper intervals for all of us overweight citizens to jump. Then would come debates over whether it would work, whether it would be worth the money, and whether anybody cares. Meanwhile, some Russian-launched earthquake would come along and destroy us all. If you had kept your mouth...
...muted. He secured from the House a resolution that seemed to support his policy. He won a lottery draft system-which an earlier Congress had refused to give President Johnson-and this may further dampen war dissent. He scored victories on other security matters: authority and initial funds to deploy anti-ballistic missiles and Senate approval of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty...