Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will launch a state-wide effort in Massachusetts in October, similar to projects in California which have connected many schools to the Internet...
...still think of Vietnam as one of the defining political events of my life," says Johnson, a former T.V. news producer about to launch a second career. "Being at Harvard during those years and feeling that the institution had contributed so many strategists to the war gave it an immediacy I might not have felt in a more detached campus. I was deeply angry then; I find those wells of anger still tappable in discussions...
...Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly. The Simpson...
...hard landing and tail strike, a nose wheel that strayed off the runway when the crew could not see taxi lights, an aircraft that skidded on ice at low speed and a flight attendant injured in turbulence. The number and frequency of these incidents prompted the FAA to launch a 120-day "Special Emphasis Review" that resulted in extra training for the pilots and an agreement by Jordan to slow his company's rapid growth. Still, Jordan claims that his relationship with the FAA was cordial. "There is a mutual respect," he says...
...species came from, steer clear of these two books and consult any of the several very readable nonfiction works recently published on the subject. If you want to read a novel that uses a contemporary paleoanthropologist's discovery of thought-to-be-extinct-but-alive-after-all hominids to launch an ingenious and thoughtful exploration of what it means to be human, see if your local library or used-book store still has a copy of Vercors' You Shall Know Them, which was published back in the 1950s. If your tastes run to pulp fiction instead, either of these novels...