Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Queens were known to be sailing in financial straits, Cunard was not expected to phase out Mary until late 1968, hoped to keep Elizabeth in operation for as long as ten more years. But the ships together have been losing more than $3,000,000 a year, and, as Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group, put it at the London press conference, "We cannot allow our affections or our sense of history to divert us from our aim of making Cunard again a thriving company...
...entered a new and hotter phase, the skies above North Viet Nam were thick with U.S. planes - and with Communist flak. U.S. pilots flew an average of 243 sorties a day, hitting several targets that they had never be fore been permitted to bomb, but care fully avoiding throwing any knockout punches. As the monsoon rains cleared, U.S. jets blasted MIG airfields for the first time and hit new targets in the port city of Haiphong and around Hanoi. For the time being, they left un touched the large Phuc Yen strip north west of Hanoi, the base for nearly...
There was good reason to believe that Komarov's ill-fated flight had been planned as Phase 1 of a highly ambitious mission. Unofficial reports from Moscow had indicated that Soyuz would be joined in orbit by another spacecraft carrying several men and that the two ships would attempt to rendezvous, dock, exchange crews and set up an orbiting space station. There was speculation that the second ship had a restartable engine that would push the joined ships as far out as 50,000 miles-a first step toward a flight later this year in which a manned Russian...
...three-phase plan. First, peo- ple opposed to the war or with doubts about it are found through extensive canvassing. Second, once the people are found, they form discussion groups to deepen their understanding of the issues involved in the war. Third, with their studies complete, they undertake "basic political action." Alperovitz is still uncertain of the exact form action should take, but he has suggested pressing Congressmen to hold open hearings on the war in the community or petitioning to place a statement opposing the war on the ballot in local elections...
Once they find people who oppose the war, Alperovitz said, the next phase will be the formation of "discussion-action" groups in the community to study the war. After studying, the discussion group members will be urged to speak to their neighbors about the war and undertake "basic political action...