Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April I marched with her because of the abortion issue," says Friedan, who has organized a local chapter of Physicians for Choice. The abortion issue has helped galvanize college-age women -- and men -- out of their political inertia. Alexandra Stanton, 20, took a year's leave from Cornell to launch Students Organizing Students, an activist group devoted to protecting reproductive rights. SOS has already launched chapters on 100 college campuses. Says NOW president Molly Yard: "Abortion has strengthened our abilities to campaign on many issues...
...effort to inform Harvard students about the issues facing the Asian-American community, student groups will launch a week of cultural activities on campus today to promote an understanding of Asian-American heritage...
...until this century that making things smaller became a matter of military and economic survival. Spurred by the cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked, as he made the rounds...
...other business, the council considered a proposal to launch a citywide housing inspection program for the purpose of raising revenue...
...took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult, dangerous and exhilarating challenges that confront them...