Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like the Gang That Couldn't See Straight -- which soothes no anxieties about the fate of the heisted artworks...
...business may have been set adrift with it. Owned by Intelsat, a Washington-based consortium of 118 countries, , the satellite, which was to handle phone calls and television transmissions, failed to separate on schedule from its booster and tumbled into a useless low orbit. Though Intelsat technicians managed to lift it a bit higher, the five- ton payload nonetheless seemed destined to plunge back to earth within a few months, unless NASA can arrange a rescue by the space shuttle...
Rescue or no, the mishap dealt a blow to all three U.S. companies that build rockets for commercial use. Martin Marietta, which made the booster for the Intelsat mission, had completed its first successful launch in December but may now have to delay plans for a second Intelsat lift-off this summer. The episode could also tarnish McDonnell Douglas, which carried out a commercial launch last year and has nine more on order, and General Dynamics, whose first venture is planned for June. The three aerospace giants entered the commercial field after former President Ronald Reagan took the U.S. Government...
...firms had appeared ready to gain on Arianespace, a French-based European consortium that holds a commanding 50% share of the $1 billion launch market. The consortium suspended new missions for an indefinite period last month after one of its rockets exploded shortly after lift...
...Western failures have boosted the competitive position of China and the Soviet Union, which have state-supported space programs. Moscow has sought for years to launch a U.S. satellite aboard a giant Proton rocket. China plans to use one of its Long March missiles next month to lift an AsiaSat communications satellite in a joint venture with Hong Kong. China charges only about half the $100 million that Western firms get for a launch...