Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word comes that they're (the missiles) on their way. And you sit here knowing that there is no way, at present, of stopping them. So they're going to blow up how much of this country we can only guess at, and your only response can be to push the button before they get here so that even though you're all going to die, they're going...
...over. Reagan stopped, and there was a long silence. He had asked the question of himself that journalists usually ask of all Presidents. Could they push the button? And all Presidents have been quick to say they could--but none convincingly...
Regan turned serious on the subject a few days before last Christmas, when Baker visited his office. "I'm going to make you an offer you can't turn down," Regan said. "Let's trade places." Baker said he was receptive to the idea but would not push it; he insisted that Deaver be sounded out about whether he might be interested in the top White House staff job. Regan took the matter up with Deaver on Dec. 26, saying, "Look, Jim wants a new challenge and so do I. We want to know if you're taking yourself...
Over the ensuing years, as the technology of both photography and printing improved, TIME's commitment to color grew. By 1975 TIME was running two or three color pages per issue, though most of that was still for early-closing stories. In 1977 the magazine made a decision to push strongly into the world of four-color news photography. By 1979 TIME averaged twelve pages of color; in 1982, 18. Last year there were 24 color pages per issue, not counting more than 100 "bonus" color pages used to illustrate 1984's blockbuster events: the Olympics, the political campaigns...
...have an innovative mirror system nearly 400 in. in diameter, which is twice the width and has four times the light-gathering capacity of today's reigning optical telescope, the 200-in. Hale device at Mount Palomar, Calif. When astronomers begin using the new telescope in 1992, it will push back the visible limits of the universe by billions of light years. Says Howard Keck, president of the foundation: "I'm told it will permit one to see the light of a single candle from the distance of the moon...