Word: launch
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...life. But we're really trying, really we are." Ten days after Andrew struck, the army's tent cities finally opened and relief supplies were so plentiful that residents became choosy, disdaining cans of lentils and demanding Tide over Cheer. By then it was safe to launch the debate about what needs to change so that next time, the help is there as soon as the storm has passed...
BILL CLINTON's answer to the Bush campaign's emphasis on noneconomic issues has been to show that he, unlike the President, has a plan. His latest strategy involves using Macintosh computers to launch a high-tech assault intended to inform voters of exactly what that plan is. Drop by your local Democratic Party headquarters, and you too can access the Bill Clinton Interactive Kiosk, a multimedia presentation complete with moving pictures in which voters can view the candidate speaking to a rapt audience on 12 topics such as defense, the economy and welfare reform. Voters can even take home...
This week, as if replaying a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis road movie, Bush and Baker return to the scene of their earliest defeats and triumphs: Houston, site of the Republican National Convention, where the two old friends will launch their last campaign together. But they will have little time for nostalgia. Arrayed against them are obstacles greater than any they have faced in their three decades as a team. The economy continues to sputter, with unemployment stuck near 10% in the major industrial states and consumer confidence in a funk. The President trails Democrat Bill Clinton by 25 points...
This year, the cable music network has awell-established nightly news show, and isequipped to launch a full-scale conventionoperation, Corrdina says. MTV puts together apackage every night, highlighting conventionevents and explaining the basics of the politicalprocess--what's a delegate, what's a caucus,what's a primary...
This is not typical ape behavior. In similar situations, the bonobo's cousin, the common chimpanzee, might engage in greetings and dominance interactions with far less libido in evidence. Why then do the bonobos launch into extended orgies of polymorphous perversity...