Word: launch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turnaround in thinking comes at a particularly crucial time, because pharmaceutical manufacturers are getting ready to launch a new group of anti- HIV drugs onto the fast track. Their success in doing so may hinge on the outcome of an FDA advisory-panel meeting that is taking place this week in Rockville, Maryland. Panel members are expected to consider the activists' criticisms and determine whether the agency's fast track has too many shortcuts in it and should be revamped yet again...
...would Jim Baker or Dick Cheney handle Haiti? Of the potential Republican presidential nominees in 1996, the former secretaries of State and Defense are the best qualified to speak about foreign affairs, and both would avoid the invasion Bill Clinton seems ready to launch. For Baker and Cheney, the bottom line is simple: restoring Haiti's deposed President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, isn't worth a single American life. From there, however, their positions diverge. Both would stay out of Haiti, but Cheney would also stay away...
...charging that an invasion is just a political stunt timed to boost the Democrats' sagging electoral fortunes. In fact what most Congressmen really want, says a Capitol Hill staff member, "is to be consulted, but let Clinton take the heat." Beginning Monday, the Administration's national-security officials will launch a sortie on Capitol Hill to brief key lawmakers...
Pentagon officials tell TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson they want President Clinton to wait until at least Monday to launch a U.S. invasion. "They can do it before then, but they won't be optimally situated," Thompson says. If Clinton were to order military action sooner, the initial U.S. strike forces would have to double up as peacekeepers until support personnel arrive -- a messier scenario. Clinton also has not canceled plans to attend a major fund raiser in California Sunday, he adds, an unlikely place from which to supervise an invasion. On the flip side, holding off until Tuesday...
...commercials, giveaways and other promotional stunts introducing all makes and models; more than $400 million will be devoted to touting the appealing new compacts. Says Steve Lyons, general-marketing manager of the Ford Division, which will spend $100 million selling the Contour alone: "This is the biggest launch campaign in our history. These are important cars for us, new cars with new names. We've got a lot of explaining...