Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing; I do most of the deleting"). It was their passion for the project, very much the result of adolescent years spent watching movies and reading science fiction, that rescued Aliens from being one of those tempting ideas that Hollywood loves to lunch over and hates to launch...
...unknown planet, Aliens takes up with Weaver, who has been asleep with her cat in a space capsule for 57 years. Fascinated by her description of the creatures, which gestate inside humans and have acid for blood, several scientists launch a quest to catch some aliens for evaluation...
...going to take a look at designs that assume we can't use the existing base hardware," Truly said, while conceding a new design would make it impossible to meet a first quarter-1988 launch schedule...
...interim report is expected to help the administration decide what to do about building a replacement for Challenger. The accident left the shuttle fleet with only three vehicles and unable to launch satellites...
iated against the deep-discount threat with a blizzard of their own special offers. They had on their side a powerful weapon that People lacked: the sophisticated, highly computerized reservation systems linking them with at least 20,000 U.S. travel agents. The systems allowed the airlines to launch myriad discounts, usually on advance purchases with high (as much as 50%) penalties for failure to show up for the seat. For its part, People operated more like a mass-transit company. It offered two cheap daily fares--peak and off-peak--to most destinations, sold few tickets in advance and frequently...