Word: launchpad
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...Most music, Roedy points out, can trace its roots to Africa, so it's only right that one of music's biggest global brands is finally tapping the motherland. MTV Base, as the African channel is known, is the company's 43rd regional station and, says Roedy, a potential launchpad for African musicians to go global. Not all local artists feel the station's early playlist matches that goal. "I wish they played less Jay-Z and Beyoncé and more African videos," says Thandiswa Mazwai, who shot to fame as the lead singer of platinum-selling South African band Bongo...
Privilege may be a launchpad for Douthat’s career, but it lacks the intellectual passion he spends the book searching for—the authenticity and originality he expected at Harvard but never found...
...none of it. "It's a question of holding our nerve and seeing it through," he said. Which may have been one way of asking: Who's going to make me go? Michael Howard is trying. The immediate question for him is how to use these elections as a launchpad for returning the once-mighty Tories to government. There's no doubt that the party's good local election results owe much to his efforts. After winning the leadership last November, he re-energized party workers, quelled squabbling in the shadow cabinet, and established a reputation for brisk competence that...
BUDGET: $53.6 MILLION One of its satellite rockets exploded on the launchpad last August, killing 21. Still, Brazil's President vowed that the country would launch its first rocket before...
...true too that the moon may be an appealing launchpad because lunar gravity, just one-sixth that of Earth's, makes payloads a lot lighter and launching them a lot easier. But things aren't quite that simple. An Apollo astronaut confessed that after his lunar module landed on the moon, he had the sobering realization that before he could return home, he would again have to get the ship moving very, very fast. As any astronaut knows, the two most challenging tasks in operating a spacecraft are starting and stopping it. If it's possible to avoid additional stops...