Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"The economy is booming," explains Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, a noted voting specialist, adding that the vote for Ronald Reagan was an "economically self-interested reponse." "Students at Harvard are not yet faced with that kind of issue," he says.
Faced with that possibility, President Carter used discretionary authority to override Congress. After Ronald Reagan took office, the Administration arranged to have France take over the U.S. fuel-supply contract, thus . maintaining the integrity of the Tarapur safeguards, at least until the original supply agreement expires in 1993. Similar efforts...
The odds they faced were formidable. The signals could reactivate the tumbling satellite only when its solar panels faced the sun, which provides the power need- ed to run the craft's transmitter, and when the oscillator could be turned on long enough for it to stabilize. This un- likely...
Although better known for its TV sets and toasters, GE is the sixth-largest U.S. defense contractor, receiving 20% of its revenues from military work. In 1980 the company's space-systems division in Philadelphia was suffering cost overruns on a $47 million project to refurbish Minuteman missiles. Because GE...
The largest carrier in the U.S., United faced its first pilots' strike since 1951. The issue that divides the airline and the people in the cockpit goes beyond a dispute over salaries or fringe benefits. At stake is a so- called two-tier wage system that would put new employees...