Word: launching
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...record in affirmative action is the industry's best. Seven of the company's 89 daily papers are run by minority publishers. The company / strategy: every manager's bonus depends in part on how well affirmative-action goals are met. "When others were talking about a desire to launch training programs for minorities in management," says Jay Harris, executive editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, "Gannett was naming editors and publishers...
Israeli defense officials, however, are divided over timing. Those who want to launch the satellite as soon as possible argue that in the wake of the Iran-Iraq cease-fire and recent missile purchases by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Jerusalem needs to watch its Arab neighbors more closely. Those who prefer to wait argue that a launch now would only push Arab countries into beseeching Moscow for satellites of their own, thus fueling the region's arms race and irritating the Soviet Union at a time when Jerusalem is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel...
...hand, the skies in the region are often clogged with dust, and satellites are ineffective in detecting night operations. "I doubt the program is worth the cost," says the Brookings Institution's Paul Stares, an expert on the military uses of space, who puts the price tag for a launch system and satellite at hundreds of millions of dollars. Jerusalem, despite military-budget pressures, has apparently decided otherwise...
Arafat plans to submit the proposals for approval to the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s 451-member legislative body, in Algiers during the first week of September. Later he hopes to launch a major diplomatic offensive, speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg and, if it can be arranged...
...accused President Corazon Aquino of incompetence earlier this month and suggested that she resign? Manila's coffeehouse circuit suspected Laurel was more concerned about his political future than good government. That theory got a boost last week when Laurel joined Juan Ponce Enrile, Aquino's former Defense Minister, to launch a new opposition party. Laurel is expected to head the alliance, which includes disgruntled supporters of Ferdinand Marcos. Said Hernando Perez, a pro-Aquino member of the House of Representatives: "Laurel will join any party that will make him President...