Word: launching
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Throughout the narrative, the authors provide fascinating reminiscences by eyewitnesses: a woman recalls a Wright brothers test flight in 1904; a man remembers the 1920s heyday of the Harlem Renaissance; a magazine writer covers the launch--and explosion--of the shuttle Challenger...
VADIM FILIMONOV, a 67-year-old former law professor, is the head of the commission of the Duma that is seeing whether grounds exist to launch an impeachment process against BORIS YELTSIN. Yeltsin's alleged misdeeds are far graver than sexual misconduct: he stands accused of causing the collapse of the U.S.S.R., organizing the assault on the parliament in October 1993 and instigating the war in Chechnya, among other offenses. So far, none of the star witnesses--Yeltsin and other Kremlin bosses--have shown up to testify, something Filimonov blames on his lack of subpoena power. Still, the committee...
...concept of dissimulation and deception isbuilt into the Indian psyche," he said, citingseveral examples of dishonesty in India's recenthistory, including its 1974 launch of a nucleardevice and its false declaration of not being achemical weapons holder...
...Space travel and aging have similar effects on sleep, and the research data we gather from Senator Glenn's participation might provide insight into age-related changes in sleep as well," said Czeisler at a press conference prior to the shuttle's launch...
...Media personnel who covered the launch of Friendship...