Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hiding anything why wouldn't they let us in to look around the first time we asked? Finally he let us in to look around, but maybe this is a trap to kill us. Maybe they hid nuclear warheads or illegal weapons, and when we get there they launch them and kill us. The U.S.A should be very carefull while looking around...
...virus. But they couldn't tell whether they were seeing variations on one changeable virus or the handiwork of several different viruses that had made the jump from primates to man. A close look at the genetic mutations in the Leopoldville sample strongly suggests that all it took to launch the AIDS epidemic was one unlucky turn of events...
DIED. ROGER STEVENS, 87, founding chairman of the Kennedy Center; of pneumonia. A successful real estate entrepreneur and Broadway producer (West Side Story, Bus Stop), Stevens helped raise millions to launch the nation's signature cultural center...
According to Vogelsinger, the council also plans to launch other projects in preparation for the millennium, including Save America's Treasures, a program to which President Clinton alluded in his State of the Union...
...have seemed impossible when the German-born Pfeiffer replaced ousted co-founder Rod Canion in 1991, a year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines process everything from stock trades to credit-card transactions...