Word: go-ahead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following state and federal approval last year and a recent court decision upholding the federal go-ahead. Harvard officials say they are confident that the period of costly delays caused by community opposition is drawing to a close...
...FIRST TIME in more than two years, a new Harvard student government seems assured. The full Faculty vote on May 18 is basically a formality because the Faculty's advisory council has already given the new government the go-ahead. And so, following dozens of meetings and immeasurable haggling, a funded and more centralized government really will replace the decrepit Student Assembly next fall. Yet, few are celebrating...
...just risen when a squadron of Air Force C-130's and C-141 Starlifters appeared over the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin, Calif., some 130 miles northeast of Los Angeles. From three landing zones on the desert floor, plumes of colored smoke began to rise. At that go-ahead signal, the sky blossomed with parachutes as 2,300 troops of the elite 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., began the first phase of operation Gallant Eagle '82, a massive $45 million mock invasion by the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force. It was one of the largest...
...time, the winds on the desert were down to 15 m.p.h. Circling over White Sands in a jet, Astronaut John Young, commander of Columbia's first mission, observed with a touch of hyperbole: "Visibility is CAVU [ceiling and visibility unlimited] to Mars." With that, Mission Control gave the go-ahead for White Sands. On Columbia's 129th orbit of the earth, 14 more than planned, Lousma and Fullerton braked to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and began a long zigzagging descent over the Pacific. When a coastline finally appeared, Skipper Lousma cheerfully announced, "I think...
...students also have questioned the propriety of establishing a government which despite three-fourths approval from voters only received a go-ahead from less-than-half 43 percent of the student body...