Word: launch
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...conspiracy-theory peddler. Apparently Perot himself initially believed the threat about wiretapping enough to go to the Dallas police, offering technical assistance for an undercover operation to catch the criminal. Despite his close ties to the police, he was turned down. The Texan did, however, persuade the FBI to launch a fruitless investigation...
...director Dr. Bernadine Healy's instigation, the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH is preparing to launch the Women's Health Initiative, a $500 million, 14-year study of 140,000 postmenopausal women. The study will explore the effects of diet, smoking and other factors on women's risk of developing heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and breast and colon cancers. The study will also evaluate the effects of hormone replacement therapy: providing women with supplemental estrogen or with estrogen plus progestin after menopause...
Once he gets his new job, Smith is apt to launch the new round of layoffs immediately, since he will be under as much pressure as Stempel to let the ax fall. Board members picked up tough ideas about what needs to be done in talks last month with General Electric chairman Jack Welch, who earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" by slashing GE's work force in the 1980s. Welch reportedly huddled with Smale and several other directors during a two-day forum of CEOs in Hot Springs, Virginia...
Rudenstine said he would work to insure thatthe Houston scholarship continues to receivefunding, and plans to launch similar programs inother parts of the University...
...educated population. To allow humankind to coexist happily, we have to provide more opportunities for education. Currently television is misused, utilized mostly for entertainment. But I think TV entertainment can be a means for education, as Sesame Street has been. There should be a global project to launch a satellite for this purpose. And perhaps we could operate TVs with solar energy...