Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news immediately provoked outrage. Senior State Department officials warned Shultz that it was imperative that he choose Hinton's successor himself, in order to show who really ran the main instrument of U.S. diplomacy. Said a participant in the bureaucratic wrangling: "Others may have had their candidate [for the ambassadorial post], but if it was really the Secretary's responsibility to run [Central American] policy, then he had to have his choice...
...anything, the attempt seemed to help solidify congressional antagonism toward the kind of covert actions that the Reagan Administration is now sponsoring in Nicaragua. Said a congressional committee member who helped to veto the Surinamese operation: "Suriname just confirmed our fears that covert operations were no longer an instrument of last resort for this Administration...
...shuttle. On takeoff and landing, she will sit just behind Challenger's commander, Bob Crippen, 45, who flew on the initial shuttle flight and is the first to get a second shuttle mission, and Co-Pilot Frederick Hauck, 42, a rookie. Monitoring the flood of data from the instrument panel, Ride will in effect be the flight engineer. If an emergency occurs, she will suggest special corrective procedures. But Ride's primary responsibility will come later, when she is set to operate the shuttle's 50-ft.-long mechanical arm, or Remote Manipulator System...
...there is a Girl Next Door [next year], it certainly won't be the Girl Next Door," says Millard Darden '83, the group's drummer. Darden, like numerous other rock musicians on campus, has played his instrument in more conventional groups as well, including the Harvard Jazz Band and various other jazz combos...
Rodriguez began learning guitar at the age of seven from her father, who was also learning the instrument at the time. Each day he taught his daughter the chords he had learned. "He'd say 'This is a B, this is an A--isn't this great?'" Rodriguez recalls with a smile. The family moved to Southern California, but Rodriguez played only as a hobby, never performing in public...