Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week Graham will officially launch a "sticker campaign" against Alvin Thompson, the victor in last week's primary. This will require voters to affix stickers bearing Graham's name and address to their ballots, a tactic that requires much greater effort on the part of her campaign organization than a traditional contest would have...
...operational flaws in a Soviet space program that, in manned flight at least, has far outstripped its U.S. counterpart. American experts said the Kremlin had precipitately scheduled the mission as a gesture of Soviet-Afghan friendship before Soviet troops complete their pullout from Afghanistan early next year. The hurried launch gave the three- man crew only six months to prepare as a team for a voyage that normally requires a full year of intensive training. Soviet space officials later conceded that the cosmonauts may have "lost vigilance" during the flight...
...performing in Seoul. At the 1983 world championships in Budapest, Soviet Natalia Yurchenko opened the new era when she successfully debuted the round-off vault, now called the Yurchenko. The easily recognized approach entails a cartwheel onto the springboard in front of the vaulting horse, followed by a launch backward onto the horse...
That is why Kruse packed his three tiny planes on plastic foam bubbles in the back of his car and drove more than 1,300 miles across the U.S. to launch them for a few minutes of glory. For Kruse the urge is visceral, planted in him for good when, at age seven or eight, he hand-launched a 5 cents glider on ; the sun-drenched Kansas prairie. The craft rose a few feet, then miraculously was snatched by a thermal and carried away. Kruse leaped on his bicycle and rode desperately after it -- one mile, two miles, five miles...
...task of shepherding through his education-spending plan to the Secretary of Defense, who has had far more luck in sparing his requests from the budgeteer's ax. There is ample precedent for treating education as a national-defense issue. In the panic that followed the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which vastly expanded federal support for science, math and foreign-language instruction in public schools...