Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions for launching spacecraft into polar orbit. Shuttles lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida enter a more or less equatorial orbit and fly over only part of the earth's surface. Spacecraft sent from Vandenberg into polar orbit will slice across the earth's twirling path and pass over a slightly different strip of the globe on each swing. Satellites placed in polar orbit have the capability of photographing any section of the earth. This gives them an intelligence-gathering potential significantly greater than the Kennedy-launched space vehicles...
THESE ARE new ideas in the progressive tradition: bold, creative, and experimental. But the path of progressive leadership through this century is still unfinished. It no doubt began with the New Freedom of Wood row Wilson, continued through Franklin D. Roosevelt '04's New Deal, and then the New Frontier of John Kennedy...
...election of 1984 may very well decide the future of progressive liberalism--and this country. Were the national vicissitudes of Vietnam, Watergate, and Ronald Reagan merely twists in the path? Or have we taken a different path altogether? To win the Presidency this year Gary Hart must craft a new vision; from his new rhetoric...
...probably the loudest timpani in all the long history of men and banana peels. The amazing noise brought Ulaga out of the chute splendidly, but the track's icy grooves were too narrow to contain such enthusiasm. Backing up in mid-air like a duck in the path of buckshot, Ulaga flapped in every direction until he put down gracelessly 100 ft. short of expectation. "One leg go like this, one leg go like that," he said, "and the people, they all gone." It was an Olympic record for clearing a forest. As the home crowd headed back...
...true Islam has shown me that a blanker indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against Blacks. Yes, I have been convinced that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on the path to destroying this country...