Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN President Bush announced his drug plan on September 5, he called for an all-out war on drugs. In the nationally televised speech, Bush moved away from the simplicity of Reagan's "Just say no" philosophy and included more emphasis on decreasing local demand for drugs...
...sips champagne before setting off for a meal of lobster thermidor. Then it's "Woooooooooow. O.K., roll those babies! Come on! Numbers! Numbers! Numbers!" As Wishnick screams louder and starts to shake all over, the crowd begins chanting, "Eight! Eight! Eight!" At the end of the roll, she walks away from the craps table $5,000 richer...
...decades provided the highest standard of living in Eastern Europe. Now the production machine has grown old and uncompetitive, and economic growth is less than 1% a year. The Communist youth daily Junge Welt asked last week what must be done to keep its citizens from being "lured away by shop windows filled with bananas." But it is not simply economic hardship in the East that motivates those who flee to the West. The refugees who arrived in West Germany stressed that it was the all-intrusive influence of the Communist Party on their daily lives that finally persuaded them...
...inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...
...Alaska tragedy shows that no amount of money and finger pointing can compensate for a disaster on the scale of the Exxon Valdez spill. Once the oil got away, there was no way to clean it all up. Alaskans can only hope that the cleansing storms of winter will continue the scrubbing that Exxon merely started...