Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State George Shultz with a sudden declaration that he "felt uncomfortable" about setting a date to meet Reagan in the U.S. He would be much more at ease about a summit, Gorbachev hinted, if Shultz would agree that the U.S. should slow development of the President's cherished space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Shultz would not oblige him, and the summit appeared to be off. But after seeming to brood about the matter for a few days, Gorbachev performed an amazing flip-flop: he dispatched Shevardnadze to Washington with a letter for Reagan that put the plans back...
...Many of us in the Air Force are about six feet off the ground," said Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge. They had every right to be. For the first time in 35 months, a Titan 34D rocket blasted into space last week. The troubles of the 161-ft. Titan, the nation's most powerful unmanned space vehicle, had come to symbolize the paralyzed U.S. space program. In August 1985 a Titan exploded only a few minutes into flight. In April 1986 disaster struck again during lift-off. In the interim, the Challenger tragedy put a halt to manned space flight...
...routes and hotels with Aeroflot, the official Soviet airline. The Soviets can learn much from Beijing's successes and failures. Chinese projects that appeared promising on paper sometimes proved disillusioning in reality, as foreign businessmen discovered they were expected to pay exorbitant hidden costs to local administrators for office space or to get by with a steady supply of electricity only four days a week. Foreign entrepreneurs also found that even the paper agreements were subject to loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture...
Rothenberg first appeared in the mid-'70s -- a time when figurative painting was still Out -- with, of all things, pictures of horses. These were more emblems than descriptions: bold, rather clunky equine silhouettes embedded in flat, abstract space, with the totemic air of cave paintings. Their primitive look was, in fact, quotation; it was clear from her knowing use of close-valued color and her pasty, elegantly manipulated pigment that she was already an artist of considerable sophistication. What was not clear was where she could take this quasi-heraldic imagery if she was going to hold...
...again she creates an image of such quiet weirdness that it really shocks you -- such as Half and Half, 1985-86, an interior with the top half of a body in the foreground, a head and shoulders staring mournfully out of the space like a resigned cousin of the figure in Munch's Scream; for no clear reason the lower half of the body is left standing up behind it, like a pair of empty waders, in the bland spectral light of what appears to be an indoor swimming pool. At such moments Rothenberg's imagery delivers the jolt...