Word: deploying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Clinton said he would sign a compromise $265 billion defense authorization bill. Congressional Republicans dropped their insistence on building a Star Wars-type missile-defense system and on restricting the President's authority to deploy troops. For his part, Clinton acceded to increased arms spending, a ban on abortions at overseas military hospitals, and the discharge of personnel testing positive for the aids virus. The measure provides for a 2.4% military pay raise. In a separate action, the Senate ratified the 1993 start ii treaty with Russia, which calls for dramatic nuclear arms reductions...
...Pueblo office--a cavern of polished wood, purple curtains and gleaming chandeliers--concedes that his primary motivation was to force Greaves into a merger, but second, if Greaves still refused, to force Health Net to pay far more into its shadow foundation and thereby reduce the capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...
...them in community-policing programs. Republicans want to send that money instead in bloc grants to states to use as they see fit. Last month the President vetoed the appropriations bill that would have distributed his police money that way. "I don't tell all these folks how to deploy the police," said Clinton, "or what they should do all day. All I say is there has to be a community-policing strategy because that's by definition grass-roots reform, and we know that it works...
...Galileo goes into orbit, a probe that it will have released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official...
Along the way, however, Galileo suffered a serious setback. In 1991, when J.P.L. controllers attempted to deploy the spacecraft's main, 16-ft.-wide, umbrella-like antenna--which had been tucked away during the Venus encounter to protect it from solar radiation--three of the antenna's 18 ribs got stuck. Despite more than 13 months of ingenious and increasingly desperate measures to shake these ribs loose, the antenna, which had been capable of transmitting 134,400 digital bits per second (or a complete image in about a minute), remains unusable...