Bottom line: If Colin Powell tries really hard, launches a real P.R. campaign against Saddam, he might be able to hold together the sanctions long enough to get them lifted in an orderly way and replaced by a U.N. ban on all military sales to Iraq.
Communist die-hards launched a farcical, drunken coup against Gorbachev that was thwarted by the courage of the then still sober Russian president, Boris Yeltsin; Aviation Marshall Yevgeny Shaposhnikov; and - a story that is still little known in the west - KGB moderates.
The company ran a closed beta in two franchises in New Jersey from April to June, then soft-launched in July, with plans for a hard launch in October.
A NEW travel app designed to help take the solitude out of lonely road trips had its "hard launch" recently".
In another tip of the hat to its namesake's street-racer heritage, the vehicle's ability to withstand repeated hard launches was measured in a test cycle that Chevrolet engineers called the Woodward Avenue Schedule.
That week turned into a full seven months, with a hard launch in December of 2011.
But it's still in beta — with a "hard launch" due in about a month.
It's hard launching a phone company — something Essential was pretty candid about from the start.
The boot-strapped Plannr hard launches this week, and is aiming for a small but crowded niche, attempting to trump email, SMS, and phone calls as existing but somewhat disorganized scheduling tools.
Since this is far from a hard launch, Microsoft's Larry Hryb notes on his Major Nelson blog that "this next phase of the pilot program will be limited in terms of both timing and the number of units available".
