Word: countdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
...countdown to a finale has begun, and almost everyone here seems to know it, hostages and hoteliers, the men in the souk, the women in black abayahs, % the few young dancers left in the discotheques. The tension is evident in the conversation of Iraqi ministers, at one moment fevered and passionate, the next dazed and even depressed. It surfaces in the frustration of the businessman who cannot comprehend that "an Arab solution" is not enough for the rest of the world. It stares out from the eyes of the mother whose sons have just been discharged from eight years...
Less than an hour after engineers began pumping 385,000 gal. of highly explosive liquid hydrogen into the fuel tank of the space shuttle Columbia, the countdown was halted and the flight scrubbed -- for the third time in just over three months. "We do not consider that the vehicle is safe to fly," declared shuttle director Robert Crippen, who earlier this summer grounded the entire fleet when leaks turned up in the shuttle Atlantis as well. NASA has not been able to get a shuttle off the ground since April, when it launched the now crippled Hubble telescope. Though shuttle...
...Kenya countdown. The Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya will launch its campaign to plant 1.5 million trees with the help of churches and schools...
...tangled web of the upheaval in the U.S.S.R., East-West relations and Middle Eastern politics, human lives have become a political tool. The world can not sit by silently as the countdown to May 5 continues...