Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the disaster, as McConnell tells it, NASA's public relations department was more astute than its management. Press releases boasting of a shiny, fail-safe shuttle fleet that would give the United States "routine access to space" flooded the media, which took NASA's word at face value...
...Midler notes, "I feel I've had my revenge. What goes around comes around." Translation: Siegel's and Wahl's careers have treadmilled, while Bette's has escalated. But Hollywood seemed not to know what to do with its unconventional star. Says Rose Director Mark Rydell: "She didn't fail us. The film business failed...
...dense fog hung over Kilkenny's main street as a cold but patient crowd waited an hour for their candidate. When Fianna Fail Leader Charles Haughey, 61, finally appeared, neither damp nor gloom could muffle the cheers. Jumping from his car and springing into his campaign bus, the gray-haired Haughey apologized for his tardiness, then pledged, "It'll take more than fog to stop Fianna Fail this time around...
Haughey (pronounced Haw-hee) was almost right. In last week's Irish election the Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) party won 44.1% of the vote, giving it 81 seats in the 166-member Dail Eireann, or House of Representatives. But that was three short of an absolute majority, thus forcing the Republic of Ireland into a period of minority government. Ruling by compromise will be difficult for the autocratic Haughey, who has won the nickname "the Boss...
However, nicotine gum, which has been available in the United States for three years, is not without side effects, Hitchcock said. "It's not a magic pill," she said, adding that doctors often fail to provide necessary guidance when they prescribe the nicotine...