Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm Ginsburg helped launch also had branch offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco and drew complaints from all over the United States...
When the four destroyers moved into position to launch their bombardment, two other warships were already posted at positions northeast of the platforms, prepared to stop any Iranian effort to defend them from Bandar Abbas. The initial shells hit stored fuel oil and ammunition, setting off a furious fire and a series of explosions. After 45 minutes little was left of the platforms, but the shelling continued. "We didn't spare the shells," said Weinberger. A senior naval officer was more emphatic: "We made a show of force...
That bloody spree prompted the Indians, whose peacekeeping force had grown to more than 20,000, to launch their all-out drive against the Tigers. With Jayewardene's blessing, the Indians began moving against Tiger hideouts in the east, killing three rebels and arresting 98. Next Gandhi's forces began the much more difficult job of rooting the Tigers out of the Jaffna Peninsula, their main stronghold. After securing control of most of the peninsula, the Indians advanced on Jaffna town behind artillery and air strikes...
...these things, I must tell you that space travel is not the great adventure it's supposed to be. Lift-off on Sept. 29 was excruciating. My pulse raced to 200 beats a minute, and I ran a temperature. Incredibly, my partner Dryoma seems to have slept through the launch...
...space market by hoisting two communications satellites into orbit atop an Ariane rocket. While the U.S. space shuttle remains grounded, Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation European Space Agency, has in eight years put a total of 19 satellites in space and signed an additional 44 launch contracts worth $2.38 billion...