Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unbelievable that you should call America's vote against Britain on the Falkland Islands dispute embarrassing. In the past decade our allies have voiced opposition to many U.S. proposals. Britain was one of the first to object to the U.S. embargo on pipeline equipment to the Soviet Union. It is time the U.S. voted for its self-interest...
Before Turnage's speech, several protestors, said they did not object to the official's appearance on campus, and actually welcomed his visit as an opportunity to protest registration...
...conscientiously tried to avoid the inevitable comparisons with his unpopular predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody, Chicago's Catholics seem to delight in the obvious differences. A balding man with blue eyes that beam benevolently through thick glasses, the new archbishop may seem to be an unlikely object for a personality cult, but he is a folk hero compared with Cody. As one woman who pushed forward to shake his hand during a recent visit to a parish on the predominantly black West Side explained, "That man can feel. There is a lot of healing that has been done...
...spring-loaded clamps holding the parcel. Out it popped, like some extraterrestrial jack-in-the-box. Forty-five minutes later, after Columbia had pulled about 20 miles away and cautiously turned up its tile-covered belly to protect itself from the blast, a rocket ignited and sent the whirling object hurtling out into space toward a permanent parking spot far above the equator. Said one of Columbia's crewmen: "We delivered. We got SBS off on time...
...vital communications link for the far-flung islands of Micronesia. But not all countries welcome the messages from the sky. The Soviet Union and its East bloc allies, as well as many Third World countries, oppose any transmissions from space not authorized by them. Presumably, they object to programming with a Western political accent...