Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight's highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions...
...that scandal sometimes seems to be the national pastime. In our appetite for gossip, we tend at times to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Let the harassment fit the crime, one is tempted to conclude. And let him who is without sin throw out the first ball...
This is why God made image consultants. (Did you think he was going to give us the image and just let it go at that? O ye of little faith...
Clearly these are not the golden secrets of anyone's success. They do not sharpen the nation's competitive edge. But let us not be unthankful for small things. ("Think about the foods you order and how attractive they are to be eaten," Bixler suggests. And would that more people did!) At least until the Japanese get hold of it, isn't image consulting what America the Beautiful is all about...
...scene built around a 1970 feminist consciousness-rais ing group ("Either you shave your legs or you don't" is the refrain) and is filled with arcane political references can ever be commercially successful. "I'm not stupid," Wasserstein laughs. "I don't know if theater parties will say, 'Let's go to this. It's got a great Herbert Marcuse joke...