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...Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when it was first proposed five years ago, doesn't seem so absurd. "We've now proved we can get it built and out to the launch pad on time and on budget," says Huntress. "Until it reaches Eros, we can't call it a complete success. But it's looking very good...
Easterns is a three-day meet for the Ivy League plus Army and Navy and is considered a natural launching-pad for swimmers who hope for times low enough to qualify for Nationals...
...South Carolina couple named Phil and Linda Lader first hosted Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head, the event has become the hottest New Year's ticket in America. Originally limited to 60 families, most from the South, Renaissance exploded into public consciousness when it served as a social launching pad for an ambitious Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton. By the '90s, the intellectually stimulating but marginally too empathetic convocation of Volvo-driving superachievers was drawing six Southern Governors, a Supreme Court Justice and a waiting list of hundreds...
...President. Dressed in stiff new blue jeans, work boots and a windbreaker, Dass sat down at the desk to fill out N.H. form 655:47. Out of an empty Mueller's spaghetti box, he plucked a $1,000 check. A reporter from the Manchester Union Leader pulled out a pad and asked Dass why he was running. "No one appreciates the press more than I do," said Dass, who is intense and deadly serious, "but I'm not going to take any questions until the day after the primary. I want to talk to the people of New Hampshire unfiltered...
...looked like a deal breaker. It was almost as if the Presidents were afraid to conclude the deal. "At the end," says Holbrooke, "we faced not a question of substance but one of political will. Do you actually put pen to paper?" Christopher drafted language on his handy yellow pad that would submit the Brcko issue to international arbitration and sent copies to the three delegations...