Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Percy's," asserts a Reagan aide, "doesn't mean you yank the nomination." Percy reportedly called the White House after the hearings to recommend just that course. Cranston and his fellow Democrats on the committee publicly suggested that Lefever withdraw himself from consideration-and threatened to further probe his links with Nestl...
...Probe International, a small Stamford, Conn., firm headed by Benjamin Weiner, a former foreign service officer, offers its own custom-tailored reports. When one American multinational asked Weiner to determine whether it was safe to set up an assembly plant in Sri Lanka, he spent months interviewing government officials and members of the opposition party in the capital of Colombo, then advised going ahead, though he cautioned that both the regime in power and the opposition should first make it clear that they would actually welcome the project...
Regina is a role that permits her to be both sex-and bitch-goddess, to range from coquetry to carnage. Since The Little Foxes is an out-and-out melodrama, it relies on manipulated emotions and Taylor need not probe authentic feelings. Like all melodramas, Foxes provides playgoers with the grand fun of mentally hissing villains, crying over victims and cheering on heroes...
...Jastrow (God and the Astronomers): "We don't know what we'll find out there, whose hand we'll see at work." Also in 1985, the shuttle is slated to get the Galileo spacecraft on its way: an unmanned package of instruments that will drop a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter in search of organic molecules, the building blocks of life. Adds Jastrow: "The two great cosmic mysteries are the origin of the universe and the origin of life. The shuttle will give us a chance to probe both...
...shuttle program: it is too expensive-nearly a third higher than the original estimate. It is military oriented. Above all, it drains money away from such scientifically important unmanned space projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, long a foe, noted, "I've never seen so much hype in my life. We're launching a truck into space, and everybody keeps saying it's the Second Coming...