Word: launch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat to the nation's beleaguered space program surfaced from an unexpected quarter this week when NASA officials announced that woodpeckers had been drilling holes in the insulation on Discovery's external fuel tank. The holes could jeopardize a shuttle launch scheduled for June 8. Mission managers are assessing the damage, but there is no word on how they plan to protect Discovery from fresh assaults by hungry yellow-shafted northern flickers...
Over at General Hospital, once TV's top-rated soap and currently a slightly faded No. 3, writers seem to be aiming for morbid, publicity-conscious social relevance. Last week ABC held a press conference to announce the launch of a new G.H. plot line revolving around dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation...
...hideous prospect--that someone inside the CIA was betraying the agency's operations to the KGB. Faced with a disaster of such apocalyptic proportions, the agency might have been expected to turn Langley upside down. To pull out all the stops. To launch a major investigation...
...folks at Sony--the company that brought you the Trinitron television and the Walkman, and will soon launch the PlayStation game player--are newcomers to the $5 billion U.S. video-game business. But it didn't take them long to get into the mtv-blaring, schoolyard-taunting, testosterone-burning spirit of the thing. Hanging in front of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week was a Sony banner that boasted EATS NINTENDO FOR LUNCH--THEN THROWS...
...George won't be the only political magazine to launch in September.in the U.S. Last week a group of semifamous conservatives (William Kristol, a Republican strategist and former Dan Quayle adviser; John Podhoretz, son of Commentary editor in chief Norman Podhoretz and a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan; and Fred Barnes of the New Republic and The McLaughlin Group) announced that Rupert Murdoch had agreed to put up $3 million to start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough...