Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concocted by a media-shy celebrity, unfolds at a party where the host, a deputy mayor of New York City, lies bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves. Instead of hewing to the consistent if mad logic of successful farce, the conspirators lurch haphazardly from rationale to rationale...
...past Bush's affability had come across as slightly sappy. To get him serious enough, Ailes had to convince Bush he was being roughed up. Ailes has recalled how he braced his man to launch the ad hominem assault on Dan Rather when he appeared live on the CBS Evening News by persuading Bush there was a dastardly plot to eliminate him from the campaign. In the limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This...
...Soviet Union's first reusable spacecraft orbited the Earth twice today and landed eight miles from its launch pad in Central Asia, marking the first unmanned space shuttle flight ever, a spokesperson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said yesterday...
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Caterina, educational representative for NASA, told an audience of about 200 people that the Soviets were able to complete a successful launch because they borrowed technology from the U.S. Space Shuttle...
...longer. Sears' popularity as a retailer has slipped drastically, eroding the company's profits and depressing its stock price. The slump finally forced the company's management last week to launch a major restructuring that involves paring down its overhead and revamping its marketing philosophy. In a bidding process that may take six months or more, Sears hopes to sell its tower for perhaps six times the $200 million it cost to complete in 1974. In addition, Sears will sell off the commercial-property division of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm for an estimated $500 million, and the health...