Word: breakout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea was a backlash of the Atari and Intellivision craze, which before dying a couple of years ago, engulfed now-college students to the point where talk of "Adventure" and "Breakout" was a more dominant subject of conversation than anything else...
...political wing, Sinn Fein, in its successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...
...from La Mancha is world cinema's flavor of the month. His latest film, the relatively benign Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, is a solid international hit. The comedy has earned $2.5 million in just ten weeks of limited U.S. release, and threatens to become a breakout foreign hit like La Cage aux Folles...
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...epidemic seems to have stabilized. As many as 1.5 million people are now infected, most of them in high-risk groups like homosexual men and intravenous drug users. But the rate of new infection among homosexuals has fallen dramatically. Moreover, there are no signs of the much feared "breakout" of AIDS into the heterosexual population. Still, infection among IV drug users has skyrocketed. "It's clear that we are dealing not with just one epidemic but a series of subepidemics," declared U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen...