Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...service tower will neatly unite with the Shuttle Assembly Building, a structure that will be 250 ft. high and weigh 3,000 tons when it reaches completion in late 1984. Approaching the launch pad from a direction opposite to the service tower, it will neatly "mate," as the engineers like to put it, with the other building to form an enclosed, weather-protected space where the rest of the shuttle vehicle can be assembled. Like the tower, the assembly building will have a crane in its roof. Together the two machines can hoist the empty, 154.4-ft.-long...
...most of Europe") and the soothing balm of pity ("What a wretched place Elba must have been"). Yet there are some rare souls on whom fortune constantly grins. Their set-backs turn out to be short outs to triumph; their disappointments in love prepare them for the mate of their dreams. Money, fame, the respect of peers and the warmth of friends, all pursue them...
Finally, Mondale must do more than listen to the demands of the much touted gender and minority gaps; he must select either a Black or a female running-mate. Only by paying attention to these demands will Mondale rally a populist coalition. If he succeeds, it will be an alliance with history and established legitimacy much stronger than any of the religious and hard-right minorities that elected the present president in the apathetic year...
...become president. So Kennedy curried the favor of academies like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith; their activist, anti-Communist stance began to weave its way into his campaing speeches. Kennedy gambled by casting himself as the civil rights candidate. With Lyndon Johnson as his running mate--to reassure Southern white voters--Kennedy slipped by in November with a plurality of 118.550 votes...
...Collins to reporter's questions concerning her Vice Presidential hopes, if any, in '34. In San Antonio this past summer, the National Women's Political Caucus--supposedly bipartisan--received a parade of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, and all of them gave at least vague assurances of a possible woman running mate and similar goodies in return for support against the GOP. Around the same time President Reagan made a completely innocent gaffe to a woman's group about the civilizing effect of women on men ("if it weren't for you we men would still be walking around in skins...