Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history of technology at Georgia Tech, believes that the space triumphs of the past 25 years have sustained us when our wars and social experiments faltered and failed. Even the tragedies have intensified the experience. "We've got to go on," says Kranzberg. "Man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...
...first reaction was shock, horror, grief. The second, and almost reflexive, response by public officials to the Challenger catastrophe was determination to push on with an ambitious program of manned space flights. Thus President Reagan, speaking to the nation within hours of the tragedy, pledged, "We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space." Next day William Graham, NASA's acting administrator, asserted that "the space shuttle is our principal space transportation system; it will remain our principal space transportation system...
...this point, Lowry's life becomes a quest to find and meet the beloved Jill, even at the price of gaining a promotion through his sleazy but influential mother (Katherine Helmond). In his search for more information about Jill, the obscene brutality of his world becomes clearer and clearer. For instance, he accidentally discovers that his best friend (Michael Palin, whose performance combines aspects of Josef Mengele and Mr. Rogers into one person) does not run an office, but a torture chamber, gouging people's eyes out while his secretary takes dictation...
...will continue our quest in space," he said."There will be more shuttle flights and moreshuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, morecivilians, more teachers in space...
...would blithely circumvent guidelines for the preservation of academic freedom after Harvard had led a national fight in Washington, D.C. last year to preserve just those rights. Still others wondered how Safran could have violated an unwritten rule of ethics and allowed his book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," published last fall by Harvard University Press, to go to print without noting the CIA sponsorship...