Word: 1980s
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...charges are alarming: by way of an unnamed Chinese-American scientist working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the mid-1980s, China stole sophisticated nuclear weapons know-how to replicate America's W-88 warhead, a miracle of miniaturized firepower. Last week the New York Times, elaborating on a January story in the Wall Street Journal, reported the security breach was being soft-pedaled by an Administration intent on warming to China. "We know the Chinese, through espionage, got information about the W-88 from Los Alamos," a White House official told TIME. "But we still don't know...
...frightened. I was a master of synonyms. Panicked, I called comedian Howie Mandel. Of all the germophobes I'd heard about, Mandel seemed the most grounded. He'd had a guesthouse built so he can live there when his kids get sick. He spent much of the 1980s putting surgical gloves over his head and blowing them up with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused to kiss Carmen Electra when she was on his talk show. He says...
...early 1980s, ex-national players dominated volleyball in the Midwest, so Wilson and company lost often. The defeats sparked Wilson's interest as a student of the game, however, eventually leading to his taking a position as a coach...
Prisons are a breeding ground for groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Aryan Circle. When the Texas prisons were desegregated in the early 1980s, whites and blacks were spread evenly throughout the prison system. Blacks, who were 60% of the inmate population, became a dominant force in many cellblocks. It "helped the white-supremacy groups recruit because whites were the minority and were becoming victims," says Sammy Buentello, head of the Texas department of criminal justice's gang-management office. A former state-prison psychologist testified at trial that an assault by black inmates may have played a critical...
Having worked with the Fed's Paul Volker and Treasury's Don Regan in the mid-1980s, I am in a unique position to recognize the extraordinary job that your Committee to Save the World has done. They are the strongest economic team we've ever had. But recognition must also be given to the many professional career people at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, without whose expertise and tireless efforts the current situation might not have been achieved...