Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aplications must now open their files to a limited number of raids after they have filled only 30 per cent of their House's quota. Then they resume filling up their own Houses. The process goes on to the stages of the second and third choice until the Houses reach 70 per cent capacity...
This strategy has many technical points in its favor, and it may have special appeal to the propaganda-geared Russians. The orbiting space platform will be highly visible; after the sun and the moon, it may be the most conspicuous thing in the sky. For years while the Russians reach for the moon, their busy platform will impress billions of people on the earth below...
...week Cape Kennedy lived with tension as its spacemen worked toward the countdown of Gemini-Titan 3, the long-awaited two-man orbital flight that would take U.S. astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom past a significant milestone in their reach for the moon. Then came the news from Russia-a neatly timed reminder of the Soviets' continuing lead in the race to set man free from the confines of his own world...
...several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While all the decisions on a particular region are made at once, there are apparently no area or state quotas. Recent figures for Idaho, for example, show two admissions...
...several successive years and always a few new ones. At these meetings, each area man from the staff introduces the docket from each of his regions and is the primary consultant on difficult or controversial decisions. Cases have often been very hotly debated before the committee was able to reach a decision. This sometimes occurs when an area man has been particularly impressed by a candidate from somewhere in "the boondocks." While all the decisions on a particular region are made at once, there are apparently no area or state quotas. Recent figures for Idaho, for example, show two admissions...