Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
...Pierce raise the $10,000 or so required to finish his boat and get it launched before the whole project sinks under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
...that end, Kirk and Madsen assert, gays need to project an unthreatening, respectable image to the straight world. They advise curbing flamboyant excesses and keeping drag queens and butch lesbians out of the public eye. Explains Madsen: "If you want to stop the fire of bigotry, don't put it out with gasoline." The authors advocate a calculated national media campaign $ using clean-cut types, an idea they first suggested...
Still, most agree that a campaign promoting positive images of gays is a necessity. On the West Coast, the Lesbian and Gay Public Awareness Project has run advertisements in the L.A. Weekly and the Pasadena/Altadena Weekly. One of them shows a mother, her gay daughter and her partner embracing happily. Reads the headline: I'M PROUD OF MY LESBIAN DAUGHTER. In New York City last month, the Fund for Human Dignity unveiled a model national campaign that would feature gay-rights supporters in 60-second TV spots called "Stonewall Minutes." In one sample spot, attorney Thomas Stoddard of the Lambda...
Pickens became Koito's largest stockholder last March, when his investment firm took over the shares (estimated cost: more than $800 million) from Kitaro Watanabe, a billionaire Japanese real estate speculator. In a project code- named Falcon, after Pickens' private jet, the Texan claims his goal is "to maximize the profits and value of Koito for all the shareholders." He asserts that Japanese companies put corporate interests before those of individual shareholders, notably by reinvesting profits in the company rather than increasing dividends...