Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger remembers Pearl Harbor just long enough to launch John Wayne, Patricia Neal and other heroic types into some exciting tales of World...
...same Andean hills. There have been reports of Communist guerrillas in Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Brazil?and of course the Dominican Republic, for which Castro has a special affinity. Way back in September 1947 Fidel himself, then a student, was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to launch a 1,100-man invasion force from Cuba...
...topsy-turvy history could safely predict that Quat's regime will remain in power for another eleven weeks-or another eleven hours for that matter. And many military men believe the Viet Cong are currently lying low, waiting for the rainy season in order to launch an all-out attack in the central highlands. Their probable aim: to capture a provincial town like Kontum or Quinhon, declare it the rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy is determined to make them fail), then...
...marked man. Worst of all, some crucial flasks have been pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global scale. In this unpersuasive sci-fi thriller directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape), it is only a matter of time until someone gravely inquires: "How worried are they in Washington...
...rejects more than half of the candidates (who are required to speak two languages and read a third), the students work for one year on a September-June, 51-day-a-week schedule. Their curriculum is built, like that of Harvard Business, around hundreds of case studies: how to launch a new product in a foreign market, how to reorganize an international combine, how to raise capital most advantageously. INSEAD lifts its students out of long-fixed European business habits by stressing practical problems, discouraging narrow specialization and insisting that they take a global view of every business opportunity...