Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experts expect these developments to trigger a renewed burst of inflation. But there is concern that the recent price rises may presage a move by some companies to seize on the first fragile signs of a rebound, to raise their prices. Any such trend, warns Albert Rees, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, would "retard the recovery very severely" by discouraging consumer buying...
...already been through the struggle to achieve adulthood, and can only guide by example. While she has used an omniscient narrator in other books, the character's struggles have been her own, and their realism prevented resolution. Walls don't open up in real life, and women do not burst through into other world's. Africa, Lessing's nemesis, is only mentioned in passing in Memoirs, where in her previous work it has been a recurring motif. Political awareness is here, but in a more subile form, for, as she says government is an anachronism in a world of anarchy...
...little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years. The Russians have merely caught up with the American capability to pick out by computer, needle-in-a-haystack style, interesting conversations from the many thousands bunched together in a single microwave burst. But sensitive U.S. Government phone calls are scrambled or coded, or both; codes are changed often. Adds an official of the National Security Agency, which supervises the U.S.'s electronic surveillance: "What hasn't penetrated the Soviets' system yet, apparently, is the hard fact that truly sensitive...
...Kelly's single in the ninth inning scored Larry Hisle to break a 1-1 tie yesterday and start a six-run burst that carried the Minnesota Twins to a 7-5 victory over the Boston...
This underground activity burst into public notice this spring when pistol-packing ex-Marine Alexander Joseph, 39, led 12 of his wives and 15 other families-all members of Joseph's Church of Jesus Christ of Solemn Assembly-to establish a settlement on a 2,000-acre tract of federal land in southern Utah. Before the Bureau of Land Management began proceedings to evict them, they had put up ten buildings, started a dam and planted vegetables. A federal court is now deciding whether they are homesteaders or simply squatters...