Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digital watch tells you the time. It does not represent it. The digital watch may be going the way of the dodo because all that fact makes for too much bulk and too little lift...
Then, on April 18, a Titan 34D rocket blew up on launch at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base while trying to lift a Big Bird photo reconnaissance satellite into orbit. And just two days before the anniversary ceremonies were held last week, yet another U.S. space failure occurred: the main engine of a $30 million Delta rocket carrying a $57.5 million weather satellite shut down just 71 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. The Delta was destroyed by ground command. "We like to feel we're infallible," Shuttle Astronaut Bob ) Crippen told the subdued workers at the cape...
None of the three remaining shuttles, which can lift as much as 65,000 lbs., are expected to fly until the summer of 1987. The Titan 34D, which can put 27,500 lbs. into orbit, will be grounded for at least six months. The Delta, which had run up 43 successes since the last failure in 1977, has a 7,500-lb. lift capability that will be lost until August. The nation's other medium-lift rocket, the Atlas-Centaur (13,500 lbs.), was scheduled to loft a Navy satellite on May 22, but that launch has been postponed until...
...race. Said Reagan: "Your efforts moved us one giant step down the road toward meaningful, historic tax reform. We stand ready to work with you closely as your bill goes to the floor." In his Saturday radio address on the issue, the President declared, "America today stands poised to lift off into a new age of opportunity, powered by one of the most exciting economic changes | of my lifetime. Passed by an overwhelming 20-0 bipartisan vote, this proposal is really radical in scope...
Joel Downer '89, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair, has had difficulty just being a philosophy concentrator. The department's offices and library are located on the upper floors of Emerson, which does not have an elevator or special lift...