Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-suppressed Russian authors. And at Moscow State University that afternoon, he developed a new theme: expanded human rights are essential to the economic revival that Gorbachev is trying to promote. "We are emerging from the economy of the industrial revolution, an economy confined to and limited by the earth's physical resources" into a new type of postindustrial economy in which the "freedom to create is the most precious natural resource," he said as Lenin's bust beamed down on the crowd...
...more comfortable addressing human issues than abstract interests, and Gorbachev is certainly willing to try to manipulate that inclination. When Gorbachev got the President alone in Reykjavik's cramped Hofdi House in October 1986, they spun off toward the stratosphere of abolishing nuclear weapons before crashing back to earth. When they wander off after the Bolshoi Ballet Wednesday evening to Gorbachev's dacha, they may be tempted to try again...
While the General Secretary left the details vague, Soviet and American space scientists have long discussed the broad outlines of a joint mission. The most probable venture, an unmanned mission in 1998 to bring Martian soil back to earth, would blend the strengths of the two nations' space programs. "The Soviets have the ability to put massive amounts of material into space," says John McLucas, a NASA adviser and a former Secretary of the Air Force. "But they rely on other countries to supply a good fraction of their instrumentation. We do things in a more refined...
...would then deposit the soil samples in a special canister that would be blasted aloft to the Soviet orbiter for the trip home. The 1976 U.S. Viking Lander probes, by contrast, could only radio data from soil samples back from Mars. This time, the samples would be returned to earth aboard the Soviet craft after a period of quarantine, possibly aboard an earth-orbiting space station. Says a NASA official: "It's a scheme that has a lot of attractive aspects." Estimated cost to the U.S.: a cool $2.5 billion and six years of prelaunch labor. The round-trip mission...
...impressions as a result of those meetings? Quite a number of differences stand between us. But I feel that they in no way hinder discussions of any problems that are of concern to us: how to preserve peace, how to make the life of every individual on earth worthy of our times. We had many interesting discussions about the role of women in society and family, and about what should be done to make their participation in society harmonious with their indispensable role as keeper of the hearth and home...