Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, has contributed much to thinking in this field and interested students (like young people at other times) are attracted by its non-conformist and more Utopian aspects. Yet there are other models (e.g. Weber) by which to approach these issues and it would be ironic to launch the search for a broader and more complex view of economics by matching the overly narrow neo-classical paradigm (to use the language of this debate) with another which in its own way is as narrow and indeed less tolerant of alternative perspectives...
...that the Viet Nam War has ended, it would be a good idea for the U.S. to launch a new war in Indochina-a war against disease. The U.S. should finance the training of hundreds of Vietnamese doctors, nurses and medical technicians, and should lend both North and South Viet Nam the money to build new hospitals with the latest medical equipment...
...rhythm of his heartbeat. The bitterly disappointed Slayton subsequently became chief of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center and played a key role in picking all future space crews, including the first men to land on the moon. But even as he sent other astronauts to the launch pad, he never stopped dreaming of making the trip into space himself...
...will be Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Stafford, a veteran of one Apollo and two Gemini flights, and Civilian Astronaut Vance Brand, another space rookie. Though obviously elated, the crewcut, 48-year-old Slayton-who will be the oldest American to go into space by the time of the launch -greeted the news in his characteristic gritty style: "I'd rather be a 50-year-old rookie than a 50-year-old has-been...
Just about everyone in Houston had doubted he would ever make it to the launch pad-everyone, that is, except Slayton. Determined to prove that he was physically fit, he continually worked out in the astronauts' gym, jogged across the sprawling space center (inexplicably, the heart irregularity always vanished after a good run) and kept up his piloting skills by flying with other astronauts in dual-control jets. Over the years, he also consulted prominent cardiologists, including Paul Dudley White. All for naught; though the irregularity did not recur for months at a time, it inevitably came back. Then...