Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than a year ago, Linda Chavez, 38, was the relatively unknown staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a bipartisan federal advisory panel. But Chavez, a Hispanic American and onetime union lobbyist, transformed the minor post into a bully pulpit to express her strongly conservative views against racial quotas, busing and comparable worth. Her outspokenness won the attention of influential Republicans, and last spring President Reagan made Chavez the highest-ranking woman in the White House when he appointed her to head the Office of Public Liaison, the principal link between the Administration and interest groups...
...hypersonic jet that could fly from Washington to Tokyo in two hours, skeptics might have thought he was merely dreaming. In fact, the Pentagon and U.S. aerospace companies have been working for several years toward making that vision a reality. The proposed plane, already dubbed the Orient Express, would soar through the atmosphere into space and back, flying at up to 25 times the speed of sound. Though few experts think that the Orient Express will be ready ! for takeoff before the end of this century, Reagan showed off a model of the space plane on a visit last week...
...jets. Only a day after the State of the Union address, the British government announced that it would provide research money for a space plane called HOTOL, an acronym for horizontal takeoff and landing. It would be designed to fly at about the same speed as the proposed Orient Express. France's state-owned aircraft company, Aerospatiale, has more modest plans to build a second generation of the Concorde, the only supersonic commercial jet now in service. The so-called Son of Concorde would fly at 2.2 times the speed of sound, or about 9% faster than its predecessor. More...
Instead, the President chose to express his own novel idea that perhaps "fraud could have been occurring on both sides...
More people express surprise rather than outright disapproval over his engagement, according to McLean. "It's mostly that other people's plans are so different. They want to take a few years...[to do their own thing...