Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of the "Innocent bystander," these attitudes displayed by the Harvard faithful only pull down the lofty image of the most renowned Ivy League school and kill the respect than most of us previously had for the university...
...feeble light of the distant sun, Voyager 2 hurtled toward Uranus last week, rapidly accelerating under the gravitational pull of the huge gaseous body. Aboard the spacecraft, two television cameras and an array of instruments focused on the ever enlarging sphere and its rings and moons, snapping pictures and taking readings that were beamed to earth, almost 2 billion miles away. At week's end, as Voyager whipped past the mysterious blue-green planet, soaring as close as 50,679 miles to its cloudtops at 42,143 m.p.h., streams of new data from the craft poured into the control room...
...missions that it carried out with great success, sending back data and thousands of spectacular photographs of both planets. But even before Voyager sped by Saturn, NASA decided to take further advantage of a onceevery-175- years alignment of the outer planets by using Saturn's gravitational pull to hurl Voyager on to Uranus, then to use Uranian gravity to speed the craft to an enounter with Neptune. Now, after 8 1/2 years aloft, Voyager has far outlived its design specifications, nursed by its controllers through only two minor crises, one caused by a faulty radio receiver, the other...
...ideas for resolving it. Even if it did, the pullout of American Marines from Lebanon last year so damaged U.S. prestige in the region that experts believe Washington's ability to play a significant diplomatic role has been severely undercut for the near future. Israel too is planning to pull out of Lebanon; it announced last week that it would begin a phased withdrawal of its troops from the southern part of the country that could be completed in nine months (see WORLD). In effect, Jerusalem is conceding that its 1982 invasion failed to bring any stability to the area...
...Baker again opposed Reagan, this time as head of Bush's presidential campaign. Always the pragmatist, Baker had Bush pull out of the race just before the California primary to keep alive a shot at the vice-presidential spot. When Bush got the call, Baker became a key strategist for the Reagan campaign. On the recommendations of trusted advisers, Reagan chose the newcomer as his White House chief of staff...