Word: embarkment
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...show ends its Cambridge exposure on Sunday, when it will embark on a tour of Middle America, perhaps in search of some sensibilities it can more effectively offend...
...might also effectively open up the rest of the solar system to manned spaceflights that cannot be considered now because of tremendous costs. J.P.L.'s Louis Friedman thinks that a flotilla of sunjammers could embark on a manned Mars mission by the end of the century, and foresees a day when fleets of huge kites shuttle through space-as the East Indiamen plied the oceans three centuries ago-making regular stops at Mercury, Venus, Mars or the asteroids...
...regional planning. If this is a deliberate decision, then I consider it to be misguided. If it is an inadvertant drift away from a significant role in the professional planning field, then decisive steps should be taken to correct this regrettable course. If Harvard has actually chosen to embark upon an adventure in the more limited field of urban policy analysis, using the Department of City and Regional planning as a convenient vehicle, then the University should so state and stop misleading prospective students, alumni, and the general public with the current descriptions of its program and curricula...
...before Carter's Inauguration, Leonid Brezhnev had signaled his readiness to work with the incoming President "to accomplish a major new advance in relations." Speaking at Tula, a three-century-old armaments manufacturing center 100 miles south of Moscow, the Kremlin chief pledged that the U.S.S.R. "will never embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford banished...
...agonizing soul-searching lie behind each of the conclusions these four frustrated females have reached. Every move is preceded by an involved discussion of personal motiviations, as though each woman acts in a vacuum, untouched by the outside world. The rationale is always clear; when Nikki decides to embark on her first affair after leaving her husband and moving to the city alone, she thinks to herself, even as she is led to the bedroom, "Obviously there was nothing to do now but go through with it. It was what she wanted, she might as well admit...