Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifting payloads for other countries and for private commercial purposes. While conceding that "somebody's got to take some of the backlog," Fletcher expressed doubts that "there is a good way" for private industry to step in quickly and develop its own expendable rockets. Still, plenty of private entrepreneurs seem willing...
...weights involved seem well beyond the lifting potential of any launchers the U.S. now has. Says Colonel George Hess of the Pentagon's SDI organization: "We cannot handle this volume with shuttles and Titans and Delta rockets. Something new will have to come along." More precisely, the U.S. will have to design and build far more powerful launching vehicles: perhaps new unmanned rockets, or an upgraded "space truck" version of the shuttle, or President Reagan's "Orient Express" space plane. An SDI report to Congress says the cost could approach $60 billion just for lift, without counting a penny spent...
...speculated that objects as large as several miles across have crashed into the earth, spewing millions of tons of debris into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun for months or years, and causing mass extinctions of life--including, many believe, the dinosaurs. Of the known larger earth crossers, none seem to pose a threat in the near future. But, says Shoemaker, "until we have tracked all of them, something could sneak...
...perhaps, that the world's most fabled paradises are being lost each day yet never seem to lose their paradisiac allure. Take Bali, for example, the Indonesian tropical garden visited this spring by President Reagan and the world. Every intruder on the island quickly registers its palm- fringed beaches, magical dances and golden native beauties out of Gauguin and then remarks that all these delights are being corrupted by a camera- toting crush of alien surfers, satyrs and souvenir hunters. The single most changeless feature of Bali, indeed, is this litany of laments. " 'Isn't Bali spoiled,' is invariably...
...after 1913, but he was no mere follower. Not only are his cubist canvases a lot bigger and more fiercely colored than those of most of his contemporaries, but they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista...