Word: launching
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...additional $140,000 to the Republicans in the first half of 1995, and handed $40,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee last October, just as Dole was pushing Chiquita's interests in Congress. Lindner also contributed $100,000 to Dole's now defunct Better America Foundation, which helped launch his presidential...
CAPE CANAVERAL: "This was practically a flawless launch," reports TIME's Jerry Hannifin from the Kennedy Space Center, where the shuttle Endeavor hurtled into space early Thursday. "The only glitch was that it was a few minutes late while some extra safety checking was done. NASA took particular care and scrutiny with precautions on this launch because it fell 10 years to the month after the Challenger disaster, which killed all seven of its crew members. But they really couldn't have asked for better conditions. It was clear and cool, 44 degrees, but not as cold as the Challenger...
...charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role. "You like him immediately." No wonder: the play of emotions in Kinnear's eyes is subtle, suggestive; he makes contact enough to break a girlish heart. Sabrina may be sinking at the box office, but it could launch a dreamboat...
...rose above the confines of computer land and became a global celebrity, an icon of the information age. He wrote a best-selling book, The Road Ahead (Viking; $29.95), and hawked it on talk shows from David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned to nearly $15 billion, making him the richest self-made...
...council unanimously agreed to launch a series of optional seminars on Harvard history during orientation week...