Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, a Tech Square firm has $140 million in defense contracts, and officials said that Draper would move from the city if the referendum passed...
Twenty-five cities around the United States have passed similar status, but Cambridge would be the first to ban existing companies. Charles Stark Drapen Laboratories, located in Tech Square, has contracts with the Department of Defense totaling $140,000 and the firm's officials have said that 85 percent of Draper's work including development of guidance systems for the MX and Poseidon missiles-would be outlawed...
...OPENING has Mowat sitting in the middle of a glacial field, attempting to ward off an enveloping blizzard with the comical and futile bureaucratic gesture of typing a work report. By the end of the film he is running stark naked in the midst of a stampeding herd of caribou. Neither scenes are models of scientific investigation--let alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques...
Conversations fill the gaps in the days, endless hours of idle chatting, serious talk and slightly nervous joking among buddies. The Marines have never been quite comfortable with the curious, frustrating nature of their Lebanese mission. In the stark light of last weekend's catastrophe, their speculations now have a tint of terrible, sad sweetness. "I've never really been in combat," said one young officer a few days before the bombing, "so I can't say what combat is. All I can say is this is regarded as a hostile-fire situation...
Carrying signs like, "The Kremlin wants Draper Labs shut down." Charles Stark Draper Laboratories employees packed Thursday night's forum of the Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum...