Word: launching
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...District of Columbia. "She was a very strong advocate for the district and hammered [the President] on this thing, because she gets out in the community more than he does," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry. But when it came time to put forward a specific plan and launch a fight for it on Capitol Hill, the job fell to Budget Director Franklin Raines. Says Cisneros: "She's found a new way to get things done...
...struggled since the day it was born. It was conceived as a proprietary online service, a la AOL, then hastily recast just before launch as a Web service much of whose programming was available only to subscribers for a fee. Since then, the tight-knit community of Internet content developers--on whom MSN is dependent for its programming--has been retailing stories of editorial confusion, marketing failures and internal reorganizations...
...President decides to launch a naval blockade, or "quarantine," to halt the arrival of more offensive weapons from the U.S.S.R...
NASA delays the launch of the Cassini space probe, the plutonium-powered spacecraft that has been mired in controversy (TIME Daily...
When this campaign is over, Rudenstine said he will begin University-wide academic planning again--the forerunner to a campaign, though Harvard has no specific plans about when it will launch another...