Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formidable barrier to disease. Even when an infection is severe enough to overcome the system's initial response and cause illness, the immune cells are usually able to regroup, call up reinforcements and eventually rout the invaders. But when the system is weakened by previous illness or advancing age, for example, the body becomes more vulnerable to cancers and a host of infectious diseases. And should the system overreact or go awry, it can cause troublesome allergies and serious disorders called autoimmune diseases...
...brand of diplomacy are "new thinking," "mutual security" and "interdependence." What the Soviet Union needs, Gorbachev said not long ago, is a "modern foreign policy for the late 20th century." According to him, the Great Game is simply too dangerous to play by the old rules in the age of nuclear weapons; the objectives must be changed so that the superpowers no longer deal with each other on a zero-sum, I-win-you- lose basis: "Less security for the U.S. compared to the Soviet Union would not be in our interest, since it could lead to mistrust and produce...
Last week Israeli authorities flexed another bureaucratic muscle. They ordered Gaza's 400,000 residents over the age of 16 to exchange their green identity folders for new booklets marked with different color codes. The Israelis say the codes indicate refugee-camp residence; the Palestinians say they identify political activists. Despite orders from the uprising's leaders not to comply, thousands of Gazans lined up in sweltering airless tents last week to receive their new documents. Said Major General Yitzhak Mordechai, Gaza's military commander: "They have to be clear they are under Israeli law, Israeli government...
...time of dread," reads a legend at the start of George Lucas' new epic. Surely it was. We speak not only of the dour Middle Ages in which this sword-and-sorcery film is set but of the late 1980s, when Lucasfilm hit its dark age, after nearly a decade as the most profitable dream-mongering empire in movie history. By 1984 Lucas had produced five of the eight all-time top grossers. But that was a long time ago, in a land far, far away. Lucas' fantasies went murky (Labyrinth) or smirky (Howard the Duck), and his empire suddenly...
...emphasis on character rather than policy has been a gradual change. In an age when Presidents are elected more for their personalities than their platforms, books detailing the intricacies and foibles of character are the natural result...