Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although the protesters agreed to launch a grassroots campus movement, the council's decision appears to have taken the activist community by surprise. At last night's meeting, the group was divided over how to advance its case against ROTC...
...Japan become a major power in civil aviation, the deal's supporters reply that Tokyo already has entered the field with willing help from U.S. aerospace firms. Japan is developing an advanced jet engine with U.S., British, Italian and West German companies and is building a rocket that may launch a two-ton satellite into orbit...
Under Whipple's direction, astrophysics at the observatories expanded at an unprecedented rate. Following the world's first human-made satellite launch in 1957--the Soviet Union's Sputnik--the center also received an infusion of government and private funds when previously complacent America plunged into space technology...
...WCAU should recognize its professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...
Most Western analysts doubt that New Delhi has developed the capacity -- or the inclination -- to launch a sustained military action outside its immediate neighborhood. Today the territory that India most covets is purely psychological. Says a West European diplomat in New Delhi: "More than anything else, India wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be viewed as a world power. That is an end in itself...