Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying that public interest in space exploration far exceeds Congress's willingness to fund it, Stan Kent, president and founder of Delta Vee, Inc., last night said a new kind of partnership between government and private enterprise might be the key to the survival of the space program...
Speaking to an audience of nearly 100 at the first meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Space Research Group (HRSRG) and the Harvard Student Branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (HSBAIAA), Kent advocated "bringing space to the consumer level...
...Space has never been so popular. The people who made Star Wars made $800 million-that's enough to fund three missions to Halley's Comet or build another space shuttle," Kent said...
...radio stations. One in Toronto that shows a 12-ft.-long airplane nose sticking out of an advertisement for Pacific Western Airlines cost $4,000, and a billboard in The Bronx that has a 23-ft-long hand pulling a cigarette out of a 12-ft.-high pack of Kent Golden Lights...
...never got much more than this in the initial movie either. But in Superman II, all of the paradoxes of the legend come unraveled. Lois finally has all of her suspicions confirmed, as Kent's pinstripes are torn away to reveal the crimson "S". Their relationship, though straightforward enough in their unmitigated devotion, is burdened with the knowledge that they must ignore a disintegrating society to find happiness in the big guy's bean bag of a bed. Superman must make coices he has never faced before, knowing that Evil has managed to trap Good in a nasty headlock while...