Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Let me get my coat off, dearest. I want to brace myself on the off chance that someone I love intends to launch a hearty feminist harangue. Am I about to hear that smiling is bad for women...
April 8, 1985--Spurred by ongoing nationwide protests against apartheid in South Africa, Harvard students and faculty launch a massive strike for University divestiture...
...cagers missed the front ends of two one-and-one free-throw opportunities and threw away an inbounds pass. The hosts had only a few seconds to launch a final-desperate beave...
...carrying a spy satellite may not be damaging, but future shuttle payloads may include Star Wars technology that is a far more sensitive secret. Already one-fifth of the next 70 shuttle missions have been booked by the military. The Air Force has even built its own secret launching pad for military shuttles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, scheduled for its first launch...
Vega 1 and 2 will be joined by three other spacecraft. Next January, Japan will launch its MST5 probe, followed in July by the eleven-nation European Space Agency's spacecraft, Giotto, and Japan's second probe, PlanetA, in August. The five craft will be coordinated to analyze the comet from different distances, with the closest probe, Giotto, programmed to come within 300 miles...