Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mushroomed from about $ 100 billion only twelve years ago, keeping borrowers in bondage and lenders in growing suspense. Much of it may never be paid off, and a major default somewhere, somehow, could trigger far-reaching political and economic reactions everywhere. The global economy is sitting on a debt bomb...
...their calmer moments, those involved insist that no such grim scenario will ever come to pass, that the unthinkable will not be allowed to happen, that the debt bomb cannot explode. But it is a fact that for the past 21 months, particularly through a nerve-racking autumn and winter, the bomb's fuse has been sputtering, forcing almost overnight major changes in international lending. Ever since March 1981, when Poland, with a debt of $27 billion, declared that it simply did not have the $2.5 billion due its creditors that year, the danger signals have been flying. Last...
Chief evil is not man-boy--woman-girl--man-woman--woman-man--love: but bringing children into H-bomb world ticketed for planetary destruction...
Legions of scholars yesterday paid tribute to the late George B. Kistinkowsky, the renowned Harvard scientist who helped design the first atomic bomb and then spent much of his career opposing nuclear proliferation...
Mailer's subject matter provides a considerable sociological analysis. His insightful 1957 essay "The White Negro" is a prophetic vision of the hip consciousness that would develop in the next decade. Mailer said that the specter of the atom bomb and the fear of our collective death produced "the American hipster" who was predominantly religious and dealt with the fears "by seeking out the rebellious imperatives of the self." This piece also marked the beginning of Mailer's preoccupation with the New Left, which not only influenced radicals like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin but also involved him personally...