Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extensive space manufacturing is likely to occur until the 1990s, says John E. Naugle, a Fairchild official. For now, research will prevail. Still, the advocates of business in space believe that doubts should temper but not rule. Says 3M's Podsiadly: "The only thing more risky than participating is not participating." Says Hubert Davis, president of Houston's Eagle Engineering, a space think tank: "I believe people often overestimate what can be done in the short term, and underestimate what can be done in the long term...
...point, however, is not whether or not the U.S. is going to invade Nicaragua (although in the end that, of course, is what really matters). The tragedy is that should an invasion occur. Americans will most certainly learn from Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel that the invasion was provoked by Nicaragua; that there is no Nicaraguan side of the story...
Americans tend to cherish the idea that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
...early to say that a political realignment has occurred or is about to occur," Professor of History Bradford A. Lee states, "Realignments take place over a period of years...
...people's lives are based on their anticipation of death. Each character learns at birth how long he will have to live, but is forbidden from revealing his moment of death to anyone else. Everyone's age is public knowledge, but only an individual knows when his "moment" will occur...