Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether any of the moons will ever be understood fully, of course, is open to question. Before long, however, they will certainly be understood better. Galileo could be functioning until late 1999, with more than 20 passes through the Jovian system still to come. Next fall NASA plans to launch the new Cassini-Huygens spacecraft on a seven-year odyssey to Saturn. In addition to making at least 36 orbital slalom runs through five of Saturn's inner moons, the ship will fire off a probe that will puncture Titan's cloud cover, parachute to its surface and send environmental...
...last month, Bob Dole stood at the Rainbow Pool on the Washington Mall and, in a most moving address, announced the launch of a $100 million campaign to build a World War II memorial. Right there...
...with some of that old-time sales religion, Chevrolet general manager John Middlebrook lays on the challenge: "We have people who swore they were never going to buy another Chevrolet or any GM product. It's time to bring them back into the fold. We need to launch these products, put them out there and let the customer decide. This is put-up or shut-up time." Fighting words, Mr. Middlebrook. But as Alfred Sloan might also urge on his new generation at Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac and Chevy: There is still much to do, and little time left...
...helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after a crash. "At last," went one of the film's proposed (and rejected) advertising slogans, "America has a kick-ass President." The ways in which real Presidents respond to terrorism, launch surgical strikes and the like will no doubt seem effete by comparison...
...talent for turning an implausible plot into a convincing omen. Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...