Word: l5
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning after the court had, with great heaving and sighing, delivered the flag decision, George Bush hit the Oval Office about 7:l5. He did not even want to hear about the state of the world from his CIA briefer until he had dealt with flag burning. In the three-minute walk from his apartment upstairs, he probably saw the flag in the Yellow Room or maybe the one in the Blue Room. Maybe he glanced down toward the Mall and spied the 50 flags at the base of the Washington Monument. If he missed all those flags, there...
...frustrated proponents of an expanded U.S. space effort, the latest Soviet achievements provoked an old rallying cry. "We've been Sputniked again," exclaimed Sandra Adamson, a director of the L5 Society, an organization formed to promote an all-out American effort to colonize and commercialize outer space. Adamson's reference was to the 1957 Soviet satellite launch, which galvanized the U.S. into the effort that culminated in the 1969 manned moon landing...
Peking's 5.5 million residents will receive a subsidy of 7.5 yuan a month (l5% of per capita income) for a year to help pay the higher prices, but that will only partly cover them. Some kinds of fish will now be 200% more expensive. Pork, the country's most popular meat, will cost 35% more. The prices of staples like rice and flour, however, will remain unaffected...
...York City's Mount Sinai Hospital identified the condition that ended her career: myoclonus, a nervous disorder that affects only 2,000 Americans. Van Woert had received a series of grants and special permission from the FDA to treat the disease with the experimental drug L-5HTP (L5-hydroxy-tryptophan), and Dobkin responded well to it. Within eight months she was able to walk with crutches and a neck brace and begin training for a new career as a medical assistant. Eventually she was well enough to have a child...
...critics, led by the space buffs in the 4,000-member L5* Society respond with a rousing no. The society, which hopes to see a space colony built at L-5 out of lunar materials, views the pact as a grave obstacle to its own visionary goals. Skillfully arguing the group's case is Leigh Ratiner, a veteran Washington lobbyist. He says that the treaty, which was approved by the U.N. General Assembly in December and needs to be signed and ratified by only five countries to become international law, amounts to a "wholesale giveaway of access to vital...