Word: launched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the 16-ft. seas and gale-force winds that had pounded the island all day, Bush and his party returned to the Belknap Saturday afternoon, their launch rolling so heavily that it had to make several passes before it connected successfully with the American warship. Eventually the weather forced cancellation of the afternoon session and the joint dinner planned for that night. Bush was left stranded on the Belknap, looking helplessly over the short distance of rough water that separated him from Gorbachev, the man he had traveled thousands of miles...
...image. As the political climate turned hostile to abortion rights during the Reagan years, she became more outraged and outspoken. Under Wattleton, Planned Parenthood took off the white gloves and became one of the nation's most vocal and aggressive advocates of abortion rights. The organization will soon launch a political action fund headed by Wattleton that will allow it to endorse political candidates. Today the public image of Planned Parenthood is Faye Wattleton...
Coup plotters have taken advantage of the resulting frustration among the younger officers to organize against Aquino. According to Candido Filio, a military analyst with the University of the Philippines, Gringo Honasan did not need support from the top brass to launch last week's coup attempt. "He has been working the line of company commanders," says Filio. As it turned out, at least two generals joined the rebellion...
...state news agency said the committee reported that 1569 riot police used brutal and undue force against the demonstrators. Public outrage at the police tactics helped launch what became 11 straight days of massive pro-democracy demonstrations...
...Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products from cows that are being fed a genetically engineered growth hormone. Indeed, Rifkin's success at blocking research projects led one biotech newsletter...