Well, the reason I'm asking you is because there has been a lot of discussion about -- starting with Ronald Reagan -- the allowance of this sort of activity, the launching of US satellites on Russian or Chinese rockets because the satellite that went down
source:
COCA
Entry:
1025
Example:
That technology transfer, the permission occurred back during the Bush administration, my question being how long has this sort of transfer been going on that we might ought to have been more concerned about?
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
ought to
Gender:
Female
Race/Ethnicity:
White
Age:
44
Level of Education:
Graduate school (Law degree)
Home Community, Town, or State:
TX (Dallas)
Location Collected:
Television
Year:
1998
Relation to Addressee:
host to panelist
Medium:
Spoken
Sentence Structure:
2.6
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Fox 'The Crier Report'.
Full Context: I don't have any information about that. CRIER: Well, the reason I'm asking you is because there has been a lot of discussion about -- starting with Ronald Reagan -- the allowance of this sort of activity, the launching of US satellites on Russian or Chinese rockets because the satellite that went down in' 96, in fact, was approved during the Bush administration, so that technology transfer, the permission occurred back during the Bush administration, my question being how long has this sort of transfer been going on that we might ought to have been more concerned about? COCHRAN: Well, I think we're talking about two different things. There's an indication by some that because President Reagan was the first president that authorized a US-made satellite to be launched by China that, since he agreed to it, then it's OK for President Clinton to do what he's been doing. Well, that's like comparing apples and oranges, truly, because what we have in place now is more of a commercial interest in promoting