Word: missions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French Montgolfier brothers in 1783, a duck, a rooster and a sheep? No wonder Piccard has a complex. "The way the public sees it is this," he explained before lift-off. "If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done...
...snowcapped mountains of Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland. Piccard and Jones cruised toward Italy at an altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal of emu. On a satellite phone, Jones chatted with his wife, who spent most of her time at mission control at Geneva's Cointrin Airport, which was manned around the clock by a meteorologist and an air-traffic controller. Piccard's wife Michele preferred to stay at home with their three daughters...
...Mission Impossible...
...NATO action, while partly humanitarian in mission, will eventually have its darker, realpolitik side revealed. As America plays a balancing act between courting European support for a U.S.-dominated 21st century and calming Russian fears of encirclement, America's actions this week will appear to some as another move by an administration characterized by sudden action...
...will be different because of the location, but their jobs and the mission of what they will do remains exactly the same," said Jeffrey L. Horrell, the associate librarian for collections...