Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole notion of the United States being occupied by the Soviet Union is absurd--there are many dismal possibilities, but that's not one of them," said Ulam. He said the Soviet government would never choose to launch such a major invasion because "they have enough trouble with their own people...
...federal authorities also charged that at roughly the same time, Siegel passed illegal insider information back to Goldman, Sachs' Freeman. Siegel allegedly told Freeman of secret plans by a Kidder, Peabody client, the Manhattan investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, to launch a takeover bid for Miami-based Storer Communications. That put Freeman in a position to profit from trading in Storer stock...
...geometric explosion of AIDS has been aggravated in part by the slowness of most African governments to launch vigorous anti-AIDS information campaigns. Such programs as there are have been complicated by extraordinary problems with funding, manpower, transportation to remote areas and, significantly, language. In Uganda, for example, 22 different tongues are spoken among the 14 million people. The message of the government's anti-AIDS campaign to "Love Carefully" has been translated into only ten of them...
...fighting ships, the armada was led by two of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz and the John F. Kennedy. The presence of so large a force in the volatile eastern Mediterranean last week inevitably raised the question: Was the U.S. preparing to launch a military assault to free all or most of the 24 foreigners, including eight Americans, held hostage by Shi'ite radicals in Lebanon...
Like dieters, corporations always launch into restructuring programs with grand hopes. But the speediness of the results ranges widely, as illustrated by two giant Midwestern companies that have gone through drastic reorganizations. While a streamlining program enabled Control Data, the computer maker, to bounce back from near bankruptcy faster than almost anyone expected, a similar process at Firestone Tire & Rubber has proved frustratingly slow in restoring the company's vigor. Their stories...