Word: going
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads, possibly send company employees to the launching site and have its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing driver...
Despite such moments of boozy abandon, Hazelwood had a reputation, at least among the Trolls, for knowing when to stop. "Jeff seemed to have more common sense than the rest of us, and he could control his drinking," Laraway recalls. "He was the quiet one who didn't go far enough to get into trouble...
...Republican leader: he received three standing ovations from the N.A.A.C.P.'s annual convention. Kemp admitted candidly that the G.O.P. was "nowhere to be found" in the great civil rights struggles of the 1960s and vowed that his party will change. He called on South Africa to "let our people go." But such pleasantries inevitably faded as he addressed the mess at HUD, earnestly vowing that he would "work for the people in need, not those motivated by greed" and would not allow HUD's troubles to become "an excuse to close down programs for poor folks...
...inhabited by despair. A report secretly commissioned by the Sandinistas confirms the country's plight: with an annual per capita income of $300, Nicaragua is possibly the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment may reach 30% this year. Those who have skills to sell and some place to go get out: more than 10,000 have joined the contra counterrevolution, and at least 250,000 out of the population of 3.5 million have fled, many...
...Sandinistas undertook to wipe out illiteracy, and for a while they almost did. But the voracious military budget swiftly eroded the gains, and by 1985 illiteracy had shot up to 30%. Children lucky enough to go to school often lug their own desk and chair from home to class...