Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt simply on the basis of the great lift-off weight of Mars 2 and 3 (about 10,000 lbs. each). If their landers work properly, the Russians will leapfrog ahead of the U.S. by at least four years in the exploration of Mars; NASA does not expect to launch its Viking landers before...
...boats in a space that previously would only hold twelve. Even though $20,000 is still badly needed to purchase the machinery, it is estimated that this new system will save $70,000 in construction costs alone. Bemis said of the new simplicity of boat handling. "One man can launch or haul and store a boat unaided, and any boat can be selected for launching no matter where stored...
Concerned DOS officers are seizing their own initiative. A group has banded together to launch a class action against the Secretary of State; to raise money for this expensive exercise, they have instituted the Charles W. Thomas Fund. One junior officer invoked a more primitive grievance procedure. Furious over what he considered an unfair performance rating, he stopped his superior in a corridor of the State Department and cut loose a smacking right cross to the nose...
...until the winter of 1969, when the dust from the Cultural Revolution had settled sufficiently for Chou to launch Peking's unprecedented diplomatic drive, the Chinese had not established much of a diplomatic track record. Partly, that was by choice. The old, exclusive Middle Kingdom notions lasted a long time. It was not until 1860 that China even deigned to set up an office to deal with foreign affairs...
...British public is growing increasingly restive over the murder of so many British soldiers and police in Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, the Sunday Times report produced a storm of protest, and Prime Minister Edward Heath announced that the government would launch an inquiry into the Holywood affair...