Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of a support skirt," a device that supports the MX while it rests in its silo. Though the stumble set off warning signals that would sound with the firing of an ICBM, a Pentagon spokesman assured that "at no time was there any indication or chance of accidental launch." By the end of last year, corrective steps were taken to prevent the missiles from falling down on the job again...
Trailing the right-wing ARENA party in the latest polls, Duarte's Christian Democrats could win time for a comeback if the elections are delayed. But Duarte came under strong pressure from ARENA, which threatened to challenge any postponement in the courts and could conceivably launch a coup if concessions are made to the F.M.L.N...
...rejected the entire F.M.L.N. plan, they acknowledged that the Christian Democrats may be too divided to open negotiations. Thus any compromise may have to wait until after the elections, and by then it could be too late. Shut out of the polls, the F.M.L.N. is likely to launch a new offensive in a country already soaked in blood...
...pair of former Texas Rangers, now tending a small ranch in South Texas, suddenly pick up stakes and launch a cattle drive to Montana. Why? A friend has convinced them that there are big opportunities up north. What's more, says one, "I want to see that country before the bankers and lawyers all get it." But if the truth be told, the long trek -- initiated by an almost chance remark, beset by terrible hardships -- seems a futile whim...
Also that month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's office closed, without any major indictments, a wide-ranging 2 1/2-year investigation into Boston real estate that included the State Street project. But federal investigators never questioned Bulger. Shannon refused to launch a state-wide probe, but instead requested that U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh review the case...