Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vagts said that faculty members will probably endorse the goal of better representation of women and minorities but may have trouble committing themselves to a specific affirmative action program...
...Scott Thompson, a professor at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, stressed the importance and success of land reform, saying that 1.8 million El Salvadorans have already benefitted from the program...
...terms. Even the letter F can be a mystery. At NASA it stands for Fahrenheit, failure, female, forward and front." Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was at the Kennedy Space Center to witness the shuttle's pyrotechnic liftoff a week ago Sunday. Hannifin, who covered the Gemini space program during the 1960s, was reminded once again of the high drama that always attends rocket launchings. Says he: "We are heading into space with all the capabilities to make it a living and working environment...
...West Germans had special reason to celebrate. They are the prime builders of Europe's main contribution to the shuttle program: the Spacelab, a self-contained scientific compartment for up to four experimenters scheduled to be car ried aloft in 1983. Said one official: "Success for America means a breakthrough for us too and signals the entry of Western Europe into aerospace." The French, who are building a conventional rocket launcher called Ariane, which could draw away some of the shuttle's business, were no less effusive. Said Le Figaro: "After their political and military failures of recent...
Unlike the Soviet space program command, which is military and rarely announces a space launch beforehand, civilian NASA has carried out its shots in the full glare of publicity. But under the terms of NASA'S new partnership with the military, security is being tightened at such key facilities as Cape Canaveral and the Johnson Space Center in Houston in anticipation of military launches. Military observers are now regular participants at shuttle planning sessions and have their own facilities inside Mission Control. At the height of the shuttle's development problems, there was even talk that the task...