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...with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country to the spacefaring pre-eminence it once enjoyed...
...Goldman's mother Sharon Rufo, told the Los Angeles Times, pre-gag order, "The jurors don't care about the minutiae; they care about the essence." That is why the moment that Simpson struggled to get the glove on was so pivotal. The plaintiffs' team has already tried to dispatch that one, bringing on a glove expert to testify that it shrank but looked like the same dark leather glove Simpson was wearing in a picture. And that is what makes the current discrepancies surrounding a pair of Italian shoes even more significant...
Under the assault, Clinton quickly decided he could not refuse to join in. Even then, however, it was not clear what the interventionists were volunteering to do. They agreed to dispatch armed troops, yes, but before committing itself fully, Washington wanted to make strict, limited rules and stick to them. The list of not-to-dos ran long. U.S. soldiers would be there for four months only. "We are not planning a mission to go in and disarm the factions," said Defense Secretary William Perry, "or to separate military from refugees." The troops would not protect aid convoys, not conduct...
...April was found to have an inoperable brain tumor--until Perot had her flown in his private jet to a team of Dallas neurosurgeons, who discovered a treatable aneurysm. Ex-sergeant David Campbell, who suffered near fatal wounds in the Gulf War, attested to how Perot helped dispatch a team of doctors to rescue him from death's door. Besides testimonials, the main business was to hear the Reform candidates for President.Winner: Perot, with 65% of party members' ballots, over former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. That, at least, was no miracle...
...full extent of the law. Since the crash, the FAA has decided to move up and extend a previously scheduled seven-day checkup of the airline. The new investigation will focus on contract maintenance, cockpit resource management , internal processes for monitoring the maintenance of ValuJet aircraft, and dispatch and control of in-flight operations. The FAA continues to reassure passengers that the price of a ticket has nothing to do with the safety of an airline. -->