Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lotto Lunacy recalls the mania that swept Illinois last year when its lottery prize reached $40 million. The craze is spreading. Twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia either already run lotteries or have plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come by, it would...
...would be proud to have his name on this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
...model. The Soviet ASAT is a 150-ft., 2-ton rocket designed to climb into orbit and chase down satellites around the earth. After closing with its target, the Soviet missile explodes, destroying the satellite in a hail of shrapnel. But while an F-15 can reach launching position within an hour of takeoff, the Soviets must wait for a target satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore...
...president of Ponce de Leon Federal Savings and Loan in Coral Gables (1984 assets: $27.8 million). Santa Maria, who left behind a small family fortune in Havana real estate, attended night school and job-hopped among several banks before being asked by a friend in 1980 to help launch Ponce de Leon. Says she: "I am extremely, I mean to the utmost, thankful to the United States...
...Jordan Gutterman, a leading interferon investigator at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital. "You don't go to the moon on the first rocket." At a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Houston, it became clear that interferon has at the very least had a successful launch, and may be beginning to fulfill some of its early promise...