Word: station
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: That cash-hungry monster known as the International Space Station just keeps on growing. Now NASA wants an extra $660 million from Congress to help prop up the Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially...
...effect of the room is anything but that of a temporary, 9-month way station...
...fact, by the middle of the day, a line of abandoned placards by the Gund polling station attested to general disappointment...
...polling station official scoffed at the idea of a fall-out effect...
James F. Simpson, a Cambridge resident officiating at the Quincy House polling station, offered an analysis of the languor surrounding the primary races...