Word: mission
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Edley, Gephardt said, would help uphold this mission...
...week, and for the third time in a month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...
...moment, there seems to be some diplomatic progress. The release on May 1 of the three detained U.S. servicemen following the mission of the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Belgrade is a welcome sign. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has shown that he would accept a U.N. force in Kosovo, albeit small and lightly armed. NATO has also rightly involved Russia in the diplomatic process, perhaps to make amends for excluding Russia at the start of the conflictnand should include in the diplomatic process the concerns of neighbors such as Montenegro and Macedonia and of nearby NATO members such as Hungary, Italy...
...salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely go unsolved. Film and tape in the capsule is likely unsalvageable, and Newport estimates the hatch door itself could be as much as a mile away. But he plans to spend a day looking...
...taking the night back from? On the one hand, Take Back the Night succeeds in its original mission, aggressively protesting sexual violence against women...