Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tuba powered up the engines and made one last scan of his panel. Tonight they would practice intercept maneuvers over the Adriatic Sea with the carrier's F/A-18 Hornets. Rosie grabbed a bar over her instrument panel and tensed every muscle in her body. Launch...
...dark and hit someone on the chin," as one media lawyer describes it. Still others see the probe as a case study in how companies can abuse the regulatory process. It is nearing its climax just as Congress prepares to jettison a battery of obsolete media regulations and launch an era of explosive competition...
Many parents accused of sexual abuse on the basis of recovered memories do not have the means to launch a legal counterattack. Instead, they are turning to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in Philadelphia to find a way to counter the allegations. They have also joined others to form a separate group that is lobbying for repeal of newly expanded laws in two dozen states that make it easier to prosecute people using recovered memories...
...three volumes of corporate history, published by Atheneum from 1968-86). At first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write a memo to his secretary that wasn't hysterical," says Felsher...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...