Word: launch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...object that flashed across moonlit skies from Florida to New York early last Thursday morning was neither star nor planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve got stuck. Columbia...
...prospect of joint missions, and especially about cooperation on the space station, than the Russians. While the U.S. space program has declined slowly, the Russian effort, though still technologically strong, has suffered mightily from the Soviet Union's collapse. The space facilities are now located in several different countries -- launch pads in Kazakhstan, flight controllers in Russia, manufacturing in Ukraine -- each with its own political agenda...
...idea is that when they launch a bigoted campaign, we'll respond," Oppenheimer said...
Others are seeking to redefine socialism itself. Michel Charzat, a French party official, believes that the left must launch a "project to reconstruct a society in which citizens come together, discuss, deliberate, make compromises." What the people are looking for, he says, are "pragmatic responses to their concerns." Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the Portuguese party, calls for "new solutions to new problems" and points to examples such as job sharing as a possible answer to unemployment...
...deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner (the parent company of this magazine) is up and running with a 150-channel system in Queens, New York, and early next year will launch an interactive service that will provide video and information on demand to 4,000 subscribers in Orlando, Florida...