Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Columbia space shuttle rises from its Kennedy Space Center launch pad this week, some anxious businessmen in the U.S. and Canada will be glued to their television sets, and not just to marvel as the reusable spacecraft's twin Thiokol rockets thrust it up and over the blue Atlantic. The launch, fifth in the Columbia series, will be the first in which the shuttle begins earning money from private, corporate customers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Several factors are responsible for the cooling of America's love affair with space travel. The repeated shuttle flights make the launch pad routine and the plumes of fiery smoke much more matter-of-fact. This $11 billion project is far, less dramatic than previous NASA endeavors. The uses of the shuttle have also tempered American enthusiasm. The emphasis in space travel has shifted from a scientific one rooted in a relatively pure quest for advancing technology to one exploring less-vaunted commercial and military possibilities...
Again, he did not comment of ask any questions. Some of the information was quite complex, and I did not see how he could possibly retain all of it merely by listening. I asked him if he wanted a pad so that he could take some notes, but he responded that he could remember what I was saying...
...palm tree torches made a line of-flaming sentinels on the beach. Over the helicopter landing pad rose on cerie, incandescent glow. The ridgelines were faced with fire: the canyons were aglow with flame, but the winds had changed, and in the flickering burning grass. I thought I saw a touch of splendor...
About 2:30 p.m., Rosalynn and I walked up to the helicopter landing pad to welcome Sadat. When he and I sat on the terrace behind my cabin, Aspen, he did not waste any time. He emphasized that he was eager to conclude a total settlement of the issues, and not merely establish procedures for future negotiations. He was convinced that Begin did not want an agreement and would try to delay progress as much as possible. Sadat stated that he would back me in all things and that he had a comprehensive settlement plan "here in my pocket...