Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment Challenger leaped heavenward on Oct. 5, NASA officials felt unusually optimistic. The turnaround time of five weeks since the last shuttle flight (the maiden voyage of Discovery) was the shortest yet and exactly the interval that NASA had set as its longterm goal. What is more, the lift-off was by far the smoothest in the program, occurring only forty-three thousandths of a second late. "A very spectacular flight," beamed Shuttle Operations Director Thomas Utsman, "a very clean count...
...policies towards the country, is there any evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington horrible planning a November military invasion of his country. It is clear that Ortega and his cronics are searching for scapegoats to explain away their inability to lift the Nicaraguan peasantry above the squalor in which they were left by the Somoza regime...
...printing company, Clipper Enterprises, said yesterday that distribution of the publication--which has an estimated leadership of between 18,000 and 20,000--was held up because a paper lift broke down. The Independent, which usually arrives on the Harvard campus by 7:30 a.m., did not come until late yesterday afternoon...
...printer's General Manager, Edward Thompson, said the main cause of the delay, one of five contract jobs behind schedule, was the collapse of a machine used to lift the 1000 pound paper rolls...
...days before season's start and then proceeded to start the squad's first five games for almost three-fourths of yesterday's contest. Though the Crimson lost one of its most potent scorers by putting Taylor in goal for the first time ever, the move seemed to lift the Cantabs like nothing else had this year...