Word: jaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees NASA's budget, Jake Garn once joked that if he did not get to fly on the space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency. When NASA obligingly ticketed him for a trip, critics accused Garn of using his political clout to hitch a costly joyride--the ultimate congressional junket. But the Utah Republican dismissed such carping as "sour grapes." After undergoing four months of intensive training to prove that he had the right stuff, Garn blasted off aboard the 16th U.S. shuttle mission last Friday...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, in his Doonesbury strip, dubbed Garn "Barfin' Jake." But the 52-year-old Senator held up well in preparations for the mission, which included being sealed in a dark bag to test his resistance to claustrophobia. During a spin in a simulator known as the "vomit comet," which is designed to induce motion sickness, Garn kept his food down...
...flight has been the focus of heightened attention because one of Hoffman's fellow crew members is Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), who is aboard as a congressional observer...
...letter to The Crimson on February 9, Mr. Jake Stevens asks, "What if Harvard gave students academic credit for a course which no Black student could attend?" The implication is that Harvard is giving academic credit to ROTC courses that are closed to gay students. In fact, the course in question are offered by MIT as part of is ordinary curriculum, and, like all courses offered by MIT for academic credit, they are open to all MIT students and to all Harvard students as well. Harry R. Lewis McKay Professor of Computer Science
...Crimson has joined the administration in endorsing discrimination. This is hardly "The Decent Thing To Do." Jake Stevens...