Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-packed dirt of the dried lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where Columbia put down after her first sortie into space last April. As the ship touched down exactly 2 days, 6 hr., 13 min. and 10 sec. after the start of her globe-girdling flight, the pilot of a little chase plane said: "Welcome home." And the watching world, even the cool hands at Mission Control Center in Houston, breathed a collective sigh of relief...
...choose not to make any such suggestion to Congress. Likewise, even if the Council does send a formal letter to Washington, Congress may well dismiss or ignore the request. Election night coverage on television made no mention of the referendum; neither did the late stocks edition of The Boston Globe the following day. But despite the obscurity of the referendum, the question intimately affects the lives of everyone in Boston...
Unfortunately, the world will not wait while the American president shores up his foreign policy. As events take their toll in the Middle East and other trouble spots around the globe, the U.S. response will be marked by confusion and ambivalence. The Reagan administration will thus have to play catch-up when it finally struggles to its feet...
Although Ward found the investigation rewarding on a personal level, he is disappointed at the pathetic reaction of the public and the state legislature to the report. The stories of corruption did receive publicity for a short time--hey filled an entire section of one day's Boston Globe--and the legislature eventually did enact three laws to reform the system for awarding contracts. But Ward questions the determination of state officials to attack the problem, recalling that the first appointee to the new watchdog office of Inspector General, a post created in response to the commission's report, said...
...started playing soccer in the sixth grade in competitive Massachusetts town leagues and continued to compete for as many as nine months of the year in high school, often in three different leagues. Carrillo and Greeley (who played together for two years at Wellesley High) and Field earned Boston Globe All-Scholastic honors during their high school careers...