Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their inception in 1960, the debates have grown to epitomize the excesses and shortcomings of modern presidential electioneering. The term "debate" itself has become a misnomer. A panel of interrogators ostensibly steers the discussion, but in practice, their questions serve as little more than cues for the candidates to launch into carefully rehearsed speeches and scripted snippets of humor...
...into a popular nightclub in the Big Apple should not be underestimated. Scores of quietly eager people form rings around the entrances of New York's hottest spots. It is already 12 a.m., but many may have to wait an hour still before they can enter the club and launch into the night. Unlike Boston, nightlife here begins on the other side of midnight. In the meantime, the potential clientele waits until summoned by one or maybe two or three bouncers who arrogantly survey the crowd...
...withdrew from the government with two other Republican ministers on Oct. 16, Craxi's government seemed doomed to collapse. Spadolini was angered by the Prime Minister's decision to release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy. For the pro-U.S. Defense Minister, the stand was a matter of principle, but he lacked...
...creepy (in The Crowd, a man notices that the same group of bystanders shows up at car accidents across the city). Three more episodes are scheduled for this season. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater on Showtime, meanwhile, continues to provide imaginative family fare. In December, Duvall will launch a second Showtime series, Tall Tales, which will retell the legends of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and Annie Oakley...
...addition, the U.S. proposes important subceilings: only 4,500 nuclear charges would be permitted on ballistic missiles; the other 1,500 could be deployed as air-launched cruise missiles, which the Soviet Union would like to ban outright. The 1,500 limit is noteworthy, since the U.S. has a clear edge in air-launched cruise missiles, and the Air Force has plans to buy more than 3,000 of the weapons. Of the 4,500 ballistic-missile charges, only 3,000 would be allowed on ICBMs, with the rest to be deployed at sea. The U.S. considers the big land...