Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing to leak and let gas through. Built for $2.35 million by Battelle's Pacific Northwest Laboratories and based largely on Disney technology, this...
...even 20 years later, looking with a more observant eye at the live footage of the first landing on the moon, it is easy to see why the Apollo mission captured the imagination of the nation as it did. Twenty years (and more) of science fiction movies have been unable to recreate the silent majesty of the lunar landscape on the day it was first marred by human footprints...
...sounds like a noble goal. But what reasons does the president give for launching the nation on a mission that will almost certainly take decades to complete, at a cost of billions of dollars...
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...
Only the venue has changed. Instead of Moscow, Renko must navigate the intricacies of the Polar Star, a huge Soviet factory ship plying the waters of the Bering Sea. Its mission is both prosaic and delicate. It must gather and process 50,000 tons of seafood to contribute to the nourishing of the Soviet people. But its suppliers, who do the actual fishing in exchange for cash, are American trawlers...