Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the Buck Rogers-style jet backpack tested on last February's mission, to retrieve the crippled Max. His untethered ride seemed agonizingly slow. It took him 10 min. to traverse the 200 ft. from the open cargo bay across the reach of black vacuum. The short journey was historic: an unleashed spaceman going to work in orbit...
...Meese investigation leaves a vacuum at the department...
...beat it. Some 20,000 boycotters, most of them belonging to leftist, issue-oriented groups, last month completed a weeklong, 65-mile march to Manila to protest the elections. Yet many of the prominent individuals in the opposition ranks wish to campaign, if only because they fear a power vacuum that could be filled either by Communist extremists or by the military. "If we do not solve this problem through the ballot," warns Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, "I'm just too afraid that we might solve it through violence." As the factions continue to bicker...
...remarkable aspect of Lebanon's present plight is that for the first time in decades the U.S. is playing practically no role in trying to solve the country's problems. But the vacuum is troubling to many of Washington's traditional Arab allies, notably King Hussein. Earlier this year, Jordan drafted a United Nations resolution critical of Israeli West Bank settlements, with a text based entirely on previous U.S. statements on the subject. When the Jordanians asked the Reagan Administration to sponsor the resolution in the Security Council, or at least not to veto...
...confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals a true gift of storytelling but she never carries through with them. They are false starts. For some frustrating reason, Adler refuses to leave Kate in one situation for too long a time, letting her muse instead in a vacuum...