Word: posts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea of a manned Mars mission is gaining momentum, despite the estimated $100 billion price tag for the undertaking. The venture has been endorsed by a dozen major publications, ranging from the New York Times to the New Republic. In a recent full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh...
...case, say some pilots, an F-14 trying to sink the Vincennes would probably have been flying much faster and much lower than the plane the Aegis system spotted. "No pilot in his right mind would attack a ship that way," one American F-14 pilot told the Washington Post...
...eight-year term than any other sitting Governor could offset Dukakis' soft-on-crime image. He is a master of the political gimmick -- he performed 100 different jobs in 100 days during his 1978 gubernatorial campaign -- with potent Washington connections (he is the brother-in-law of Washington Post Board Chairman Katharine Graham). But with less than two years in the Senate, he brings little Washington or foreign policy experience to the ticket...
Social psychologists use the term "cognitive dissonance" for the anxiety caused when facts conflict with deeply held beliefs. Americans appear to have responded to the cognitive dissonance triggered by the Iranian airbus disaster by stifling both moral responsibility and collective grief. A Washington Post- ABC News poll found that 74% of those surveyed believe that Iran is more to blame than the U.S. for the destruction of Flight 655. Certainly this reaction was compounded by the role that Iran plays in American demonology. Nine years of demonstrators in Tehran chanting "Death to America!" have fueled an emotional climate where...
...while Thornburgh may have decided againstcampaigning for a political post, he has stillbeen actively involved in the political worldwhile at Harvard. He has been mentioned as apossible running mate for Vice President GeorgeBush in the fall campaign. And he testifed onbehalf of Judge Robert Bork, whom he knew from hisearlier Justice Department days, during hisunsuccessful nomination hearings before the SenateJudiciary Committee last year