Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Brown last week, when he heard about the startling decision made by Standard Oil of Ohio. After five years, $50 million in expenses and submission of more than 700 permits and applications, the company, which is part owned by British Petroleum, was abandoning its ill-starred effort to launch a $1 billion project that would have been of value to the entire nation. Sohio wanted to convert an unused 700-mile natural-gas pipeline to move Alaskan oil from Long Beach, Calif, to Midland, Texas, for further delivery to the energy-hungry Midwest...
...border against future [I Vietnamese mischief. Peking also hinted that it might send back some troops in several disputed border enclaves-an affront to Hanoi's delicate sensibilities. Although the Vietnamese escaped punishment, Premier Pham Van Dong is unlikely to forget the humiliation of the invasion, and might launch a few guerrilla forays of his own across the frontier with China. There are also potential domestic implications for the People's Republic. The inconclusive outcome of the war may have hurt the prestige of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is chief of staff...
...Washington, New York and Detroit, he sat among the commoners at the rear of the tourist section on TWA's Flight 890, alternately signing autographs for fellow passengers and consulting a thick red briefing book entitled "Economics of a Balanced Federal Budget." His goal, he said, was "to launch a national debate on amending the Constitution to balance the federal budget...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...
While the ethics commission has yet to take an active role in the investigation of King appointees, the House recently proposed a resolution calling for it to launch a preliminary inquiry. The state's only other investigative commission, a blue-ribbon panel on the MBM contracts scandal, is currently seeking the authority to look into the Massachusetts Port Authority, an agency directed by King until his firing in 1975. Whether either commission will eventually plunge into the King affair remains in doubt, but Harshbarger said the suggestion "would have to be taken very seriously...