Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Bush scored what he proudly called "a double hit." Just as he had awakened his sleepy presidential campaign with a socko speech at the 1988 Republican Convention, he rose from his four-month presidential lethargy to launch an initiative that wrested the arms-control initiative from the Soviet leader and averted a bruising collision among the allies. The sigh of relief echoed from West Germany to Washington, where Bush's lackadaisical leadership was sowing seeds of Government paralysis. Two days later, Bush rode out of Brussels the man of the moment...
...hear the latest news about the law school..." I launch into tales of appointments...
Tokyo lacks the leadership to launch the kind of overnight reforms that would convince U.S. politicians that they were being heard. A Japanese Prime Minister does not carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look...
...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...
...across the state a near miracle was happening. On that same day, West Virginia legislators completed a session unlike any other in the state's history. Democrats and Republicans pushed through a thick package of legislation that would trim the state's tangled bureaucracy, reorganize its disastrous finances and launch an ambitious program of educational reform. The measures were ramrodded into law by rookie Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton, 49, a man who is determined to upend the state's feckless political tradition and sell mountaineers something they haven't had in decades: hope...