Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some economists fear that a tighter job market will push up wages and launch a new inflationary spiral. In November 1979, the last time unemployment was as low as 5.9%, inflation was roaring ahead at a seemingly unstoppable 12% annual rate. The current consensus, however, is that the economy still has enough slack to keep that from happening. One reason: in addition to the 7.1 million people the Labor Department officially lists as "unemployed," an additional 1 million, classified as "discouraged," have given up looking for jobs but are still part of the country's available labor pool...
This is roughly the situation of students in Room 201, who are conjuring up imaginary new projects and then charting all the tasks needed to bring them to market. A manager from Godfather's Pizza is working with a training coordinator from Wisconsin Power & Light to launch nuclear wastes into the sun. Someone else is hoping to market a stringless yo-yo ("potential opportunity...
...later. Incredible. Had she lived in today's tattletale milieu, the mother of little Oscar Folsom Cleveland would have bounced from magazine covers right into the hot seats of Donahue and Nightline. Agents would have hatched deals for books, movies, interviews, docudramas and maybe a stint of modeling to launch a new line of lingerie called Grover's Corners...
...Institution's Paul Stares, author of the recently published book Space and National Security. "But simple numerical comparisons of space activity can be misleading. In every possible way, our satellites are superior to theirs." Since 1972, for example, the Soviets have been struggling to establish a continuous early-warning launch-detection satellite system. Since these satellites generally have short life-spans, says a Washington analyst, "the Soviets are forever launching those early-warning systems." As a result, the Soviet brass are less prone than their American counterparts to depend heavily on them. Says Johnson: "The military environment will not collapse...
...failed revolt, remained at large with as many as 2,000 renegade troops. According to press reports, Honasan has been secretly slipping in and out of Manila under the protection of military guards. Members of the business community may now be funding him, and some observers predicted he would launch a new coup attempt within a few weeks. If so, he could win support among government troops and officers, a majority of whom continue to sympathize with Honasan's professed goals of an all-out offensive against the N.P.A. and higher living standards for soldiers. There was even speculation that...