Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"In theory, there are resources that could betaken away from something else if the faculty feltthat developing that site was a higher priority,"said Rotner. "We have a variety of differentpossible ways to deal with all our space problems,but it could take a good deal more time and moneythan...
One is sometimes incredulous now at 1968, not only at the astonishing sequence of events, but at the intensity, the energy in the air. People lived their lives, of course. And yet the air of public life seemed to be on fire, and that public fire singed the private self...
The flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire...
The immediate aftermath of Apollo 8 was a land rush of follow-up flights. Said Thomas Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters...
"My guess is that there will be a sizeable number of liberals who will feel that there is something to the [peace through strength] argument because historians, I think, tend to place a lot of emphasis--as do political scientists--on the outcomes," says Assistant Professor of Government Yuen Foong...