Word: rejoins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the two space walkers could rejoin their buddies inside the cabin, all activities were stopped for what has become a shuttle tradition: a presidential telephone call. Speaking from his California ranch, Ronald Reagan praised the men for their courage and inspiration. McCandless, asked by the President to explain the significance of his and Stewart's activities, replied grandiloquently. Said he: "We're literally opening a new frontier in what man can do in space, and we'll be paving the way for many important operations on the coming space stations." Reagan had formally endorsed the idea...
...provide an opportunity to redeploy the Marines to safer ground. Two of America's partners in the Multi-National Force also were increasingly restive about being pinned down in Beirut. France announced that in late January it would transfer one-fourth of its 1,750-man garrison to rejoin the United Nations Force in southern Lebanon. Italy plans to cut its contingent from 2,200 to 1,100 in the near future. Britain alone has promised not to reduce its presence, but its troops number only...
Young and Shaw left for Houston after Columbia's landing to rejoin their families, but the flight was not over for the other four crewmen. They were driven off to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards for a continuation of the rigorous biomedical tests, including highspeed whirls in a centrifuge, which had begun on the ground and continued in orbit. These are designed not only to discover ways of coping with space sickness but also to learn whether any significant physiological changes occurred after ten days of weightlessness. Until these examinations are finished this Thursday...
Carver's stories radiate a sense of laconic menace. The worse the fates of his people, the more elliptically they seem to be telegraphed. In Chef's House, Edna is persuaded to rejoin her husband Wes. He tells her he has stopped drinking and is living in a rented house with a view of the ocean. Together, they happily pass a summer. But then the landlord says his daughter needs the house, and Wes and Edna will have to leave. Edna realizes that this news will send Wes back to booze and her away from...
After working for a year and a half as a consultant to a Maryland firm specializing in defense issues, he accepted an invitation to rejoin the Pentagon as an analyst in the Program Analysis and Evaluation office. That office was originally set up by Robert McNamara to provide hard-eyed advice about whether the weapons plans of the armed services really made sense. Spinney says he was attracted to the Analysis and Evaluation office because of the chance to work with Boyd again...