Word: proceeds
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Rejecting suggestions that the nation proceed apace with a space station and a permanent base on the moon in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars, Nixon issued a statement that shook the NASA hierarchy: "Space must take its place with other national priorities." Suddenly the space agency's primary mission became sheer survival. "Once NASA's goals in space were rejected," says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, "its purpose became maintenance of the institution. A siege mentality developed. NASA circled the wagons and began to lie to itself and everybody else...
...deluge of legal actions around the country led Merrill Lynch attorneys to ask a national judicial panel to move all of the cases to New York City. Harvard and several other plaintiffs objected, urging that the cases be allowed to proceed where they were originally filed...
...nation's coal miners have given notice that they intend to stage a political strike this week. For them, reform has not come fast enough, and they only want more. As Politburo liberal Yakovlev told the assembly, the changes in Soviet society were already "irreversible" and would proceed "with the party or without it." The question that Gorbachev has to decide is whether he dares risk his political future to stay behind "with the party...
...simply proceed toward unity and NATO membership and say, "This is what we are going to do, whatever Gorbachev...
...have given careful thought about which way to go. One alternative was shock therapy. Instead we have decided to proceed radically, but on the basis of the special characteristics of our economy. Most Western economists believe we're doing the right thing. We can't just follow someone else's model automatically. There was a time when we tried to impose our model on others. It would be a disaster if we just borrowed blindly another country's model. That's why we think we should take a radical path but without shocks...