Word: maneuverable
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Dr. Hasan offered to acquire Health Net, but Greaves wasn't interested. He was about to convert Health Net into a for-profit company, a process that under California law required Health Net to establish an independent, nonprofit foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's...
Only someone with particular tenacity would remain a communist in Russia throughout the 1990s and then manage to maneuver the party back to the brink of power. The son of village schoolteachers in southwestern Russia, Zyuganov began his career as a full-time party worker in 1967. He was serving...
AND IT WAS. THE SOLUTION WAS TO supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing...
A six-year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and...
He's lucky they don't. Watching Gramm maneuver, one easily understands why so many Americans deride the people they elect to office.