Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irate New Yorkers are pushing past the token booths and ducking under the turnstiles. In Philadelphia, commuter trains are plastered with white cardboard notices announcing the end of service on Aug. 30. In Chicago, suburbanites are so infuriated by fare increases that they are threatening to desert their leafy outposts...
Though Chapman faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life, acting State Supreme Court Justice Dennis Edwards promised that in return for the guilty plea, he would not receive more than 20 years to life. At Chapman's sentencing on Aug. 24, Marks plans to use the testimony of two psychiatrists and one psychologist-as well as his defendant's God-given plea-to argue that Chapman is insane and thus should be given the most lenient sentence...
...question is hardly startling. Israel may represent the only people who have actually viewed the Apocalypse, but on Aug. 6, 1945, the rest of the world saw something that might pass for the Apocalypse until the right thing comes along. Hiroshima occurred, after all. No one dreamed Harry Truman's Promethean explanation: "It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war." At that time the bomb was thought of solely as a weapon. Some hold the dark theory that...
...neutralized. The mind made the bomb, the mind denied it, and the mind can stop it cold. If that should sound impossible, consider how impossible nuclear fission must have seemed at the start, or how impossible the Holocaust, or how impossible to the children of Hiroshima that Aug. 6, 1945, would turn out to be anything but another summer...
...future convertibility of the American currency started turning in more and more dollars for gold. At the same time, French President Charles de Gaulle began a campaign to restore the full gold standard, proclaiming its merits as a form of payment that is "eternally and universally accepted." On Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon finally ended the gold-exchange system, when he announced that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars for American gold...