Word: launch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chance -- maybe the last good chance -- to revitalize NASA's faltering image, which has suffered one blow after another since the Challenger explosion in 1986. Just in the past year, the beleaguered space agency has lost contact with the $1 billion Mars Observer, has had a shuttle launch aborted three seconds before lift-off and has run into serious trouble developing the GOES-Next weather satellite, which is three years behind schedule and now has a price tag of $1.7 billion, double the original estimate...
Nonetheless, the majority of NAT's $8 million budget comes from two patrons -- a French emigre named Laura Pels, who believes she is helping launch an American equivalent of the Comedie-Francaise, and Randall himself. He takes no salary, donates all outside earnings, and has given more than $1 million in savings to fulfill "a lifelong dream." Randall also raised $1.2 million for the first season via a one-night benefit in which he and Jack Klugman reprised their TV-series roles in the stage version of The Odd Couple. Next summer he and Klugman plan a two-month, eight...
Viacom raised its offer to $10 billion in its friendly attempt to merge with Paramount Communications and gained an advantage over rival QVC by making its tender two days ahead of QVC's $10.1 billion offer. Meanwhile, Paramount announced that it would join Chris-Craft Industries to launch a fifth national television network in January...
After its initial launch in conjunction with Warner Publisher Services (WPS), a Time-Warner Company, back in April 1993, Inside Edge has made publishing history by expanding to over 100,000 retail outlets in the United States and in over 20 foreign countries, and by beating "established" books such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and Details in key major markets across the United States...
Green said the May launch date has no special historical significance, and was chosen over the summer for "calendar convenience...