Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday's launch, scheduled for 9:38 a.m. EST, had been delayed two hours while officials analyzed the possibility that foot-long launch-pad icicles that formed in the frosty Florida morning might cause problems. But after liftoff, at 11:38 a.m., the NASA commentator, Steve Nesbitt, reported systems were normal...
...exclaimed first lady NancyReagan, who was watching the launch in the WhiteHouse family quarters...
Along with their common record label, these bands also share a common attempt to launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...
...three candidates, who are running as Alumni Against Apar-theid, will launch their campaign Friday when they submit petitions to the secretary of the Harvard Corporation nominating them for election to the Overseers...
...been more persuasive. After threatening to shut down his papers, Maxwell announced that the unions had agreed to lay off one-third of his newspaper group's 6,000 staffers. All eyes now are on Eddie Shah, a feisty publisher of newspapers in northern England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah's paper, Today, is a success, his fellow proprietors are likely to applaud...