Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston does not plan changes in its in-lieu-of-tax program in the near future. "Our hope would be that institutions would recognize the constraints that communities are under," said Jankowski...
...Japanese have a way of making big moves quietly. Only a handful of onlookers stood in the cold one evening last week to watch a slim red-and- silver rocket roar off the pad at the Kagoshima Space Center near Uchinoura, some 940 km (598 miles) southwest of Tokyo. But despite the minimal press coverage and lack of hoopla, the event was a major milestone for Japan's space program. The launch sent the unmanned Muses-A probe on its way to the moon, the first lunar mission since the Soviets' Luna 24 in 1976. Muses-A is expected...
...scratch, and tight government budgets have not helped. In the current fiscal year, for example, Japan has allocated some $1.07 billion for space, about 10% of the U.S. figure. And launches are limited to only 90 days a year, half in winter and half in summer, because tuna fishermen near the space center claim that rockets are dangerous and scare away fish...
...comforting and predictable as a public-service commercial. For the real goods on women without men, and on the hold the dead have over the living, skip Men Don't Leave and catch up with its thrilling, high-fantasy counterpart, Always, still playing at a theater near...
...southern West Germany about 75 miles east of Stuttgart, U.S. Army Captain Terry Quinn points cheerfully at a squat, wide-track staff vehicle parked near a rural Bavarian crossroads. "That," he says, "is a tank." Nearby a sergeant fans a deck of cardboard chits with shell totals printed on them. "And this," he says, "is our ammunition...