U.S.officials say no part of the three-stage rocket reached orbit and the launching was a thinly-disguised test of a long-range ballistic missile that was banned under a 2006 U.N.resolution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Meanwhile, Comcast said it was launching a test of use-based pricing in unspecified markets.

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We did a lot of research and had a ton of comparable examples for each of our assumptions, but our first real test was launching our site.

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