Word: spins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessary damage control and to help shape the all-important "spin" the press will put on the encounters, Baker ordered top White House aides to be available to reporters for debate postmortems, particularly televised ones. He believes that the voters await the judgments of pundits and TV commentators about who won and who lost before making up their own minds...
Then there is the forward spin: both Geraldine Ferraro and George Bush plausibly have designs on other offices-Ferraro a Senate seat from New York in 1986, Bush the presidency in 1988. The political future of each may be affected more by public impressions made during the campaign than by the vote tally...
...earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to the arid steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan. The triumphant trio, who had been aloft since last February aboard an orbiting Soviet space station, were the possessors of a new space endurance record: a 237-day spin through the heavens.* A more important trophy was the cache of information gathered from experiments run on board their trailer-size Salyut 7 to determine the effects of prolonged weightlessness. This knowledge, Soviet scientists believe, should prove invaluable in Moscow's efforts to place a giant permanent station...
...Such spin-offs as fan clubs, lunch boxes and watches are being added to spur interest. Ideal (ten nonconvertible Robo Force figures such as Cruel and Vulgar) even issues a slick, 90-page magazine with feature articles on robotics and the future...
...about 100 billion stars revolving in the Milky Way. All stars spin toward the center of the pinwheel-shaped galaxy, and each trip to the middle takes about 250 million years...