Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money can't be the object in the great house hunt...
...will be ground to an accuracy of better than a millionth of an inch, tolerances that would be wasted in a ground-based instrument because of atmospheric disturbances. The telescope's pointing system, locking onto guide stars and controlled by flywheels, will be able to fix on an object the size of a dime at a distance of 400 miles...
...movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...
Some people loudly object to NASA and the shuttle, saying the money should be spent elsewhere. From the beginning of the manned space program in the late '50s until the end of Project Skylab in 1979, NASA spent approximately $60 billion. This sounds like a lot until one considers that today $60 billion would last four months in the Department of Health and Human Services...
There were also ominous new signs of an impending crackdown. At week's end the government expelled a number of Western journalists, including the representatives of TIME and the three major U.S. television networks. The object of such expulsions, said one Bonn analyst, appeared to be simply "to close the windows as much as possible...