Word: arced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closed societies of Eastern Europe, even a modest rise in expectations can be as explosive as leaking gas fumes. Last week strikes, protests and demonstrations erupted in an arc of unrest that ranged from the Soviet Union's restless Baltic republics to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The immediate provocation for most of the popular outbursts was worsening economic deprivation. But on a deeper level, frustrated East Europeans were prodded into action by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tantalizing vision of a reformed and freer model of Communism. The protests also underscored a generational shift to younger activists, whose hopes...
...does not move in spurts, or take things at a gulp. He learned his lessons every day, and left time for other things. He boasts that he never stayed up all night to study -- in fact that he never stayed up all night for anything. He early established the arc of his own effort, and maintains that trajectory despite diversions and passing impulses. That is the story of his current campaign for the presidency, and of his first and only Boston marathon, run when he was underage, with such awareness of his resources and the rate of their expenditure that...
...into the Midwest, sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received less than half the normal spring rainfall. The soft night lawns are brown crackling grist. The old swimming holes have evaporated...
...Multi-Arc Scientific Coatings, of St. Paul, has built a thriving international business (1987 sales: $10 million) by using a Soviet technique for coating metal implements with gold-colored titanium nitride. The superhard coating protects drill bits and other parts from wear and corrosion, increasing their life-span from threefold to 30-fold...
Both East and West might make significant advances by expanding their modest contacts in high-tech fields. Says Multi-Arc Chairman Peter Flood: "If we were prepared to let them benefit from our production-engineering expertise in exchange for the scientific contribution they can make, the whole world would be better...