Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catharsis, a release. It's my moment of solitude," says Paul Karlin, 30, a restaurant owner and weight lifter from Bethesda, Md. "It gets you breathing hard. You sweat. Your mind is consumed by the motion of what you are trying to do and by the pain factor. But when you stop, it's like coming down from a high." Like some proud corps of crack troops, the new Spartans are dedicated to an ideal of fitness that far surpasses conventional images of weekend joggers. "I enjoy being strong," says Houston Librarian Amy Mollberg, 39, who lifts free...
...April, when NASA hopes the arm will pluck a malfunctioning 5,100-lb. satellite from space and bring it aboard the shuttle for repairs. Throughout the flight, Bluford and other crew members served as subjects for research conducted aloft by Astronaut and Physician William Thornton, into the causes of motion sickness. Fully 40% of shuttle astronauts have complained of nausea while weightless in space. To aid understanding of the malady, crew members affixed electrodes to their skin to record eye movements as they floated about the weightless cabin...
...third recommendation, supported by half the Committee, was for total divestiture. Although the recommendation failed to garner the support of a majority of the ACSR, the fact that it had been voted on--this was the first time that the ACSR had considered such a motion--and that it received the support of alumni and Faculty members as well as students was in itself very significant...
...lounge and whisked him into a customs office. Inspectors then searched his luggage for more than one hour, confiscating a color television set, a videotape of the musical My Fair Lady and some English honey. Next day Nkomo appeared in Zimbabwe's neoclassical national assembly to challenge a motion that, because he had missed 21 consecutive sessions, would have stripped him of his seat. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government had introduced the motion two weeks earlier...
...government, and ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present, Zvobgo announced that, because the government was not "vindictive or divisive," he would withdraw the controversial motion to unseat Nkomo...