Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television transmissions. Sent spinning out of the shuttle's big cargo bay, the satellite automatically fired its booster 45 minutes later and began the long 140-hour climb to a permanent "geostationary" parking place 22,300 miles above the equator. Next day, the Challenger crew was scheduled to repeat the performance with a satellite called Palapa B (or Fruit of Effort in Indonesian) that will serve as a communications link for Indonesia's islands...
...than a throw of a switch. Six are contained in a joint U.S.-West German package called OSTA-2 (after NASA'S old Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications), which will test such technologies as glass forming, alloy making and crystal growing in weightlessness. Two other experiments are repeat efforts aimed at producing superpure pharmaceuticals and precisely shaped latex particles for use in medical tasks like blood-flow measurement...
...breakfast with TIME editors in New York City, Hawke noted that it was a Labor government during World War II that moved away from Australia's historic tie to Britain toward a closer U.S.-Australia relationship. He added: "I did say [to Reagan], and I repeat it, that that relationship would not be one of sycophancy or unquestioning acceptance of every decision of the United States." When Australia disagrees with the U.S., he promised, "we won't be slow to tell...
...video cameras in major murder cases. In New Orleans, TV confessions are used when illiterate defendants are unable to sign transcribed statements. The Minneapolis police department records statements from child-abuse victims. Says Chief Anthony Bouza: "That way a child recounting a traumatic event doesn't have to repeat it 20 times...
Beyond the aesthetics of the thing, writing one's own ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...