Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the West stabbed to death Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last Prime Minister, inside his home in a Paris suburb. This was the second attempt on Bakhtiar's life, and its success embarrassed the French government. The four-member police detail that watches Bakhtiar's house round the clock did not even notice that anything was amiss until 36 hours after the slaying...
Ironically, Thomas' strongest advocate in the Senate, Missouri Republican John Danforth, last week accused the White House of "trying to turn the clock back on civil rights." Danforth had been attempting to broker a compromise between the Administration and Congress over the new civil rights bill. But Bush rejected a bipartisan plan to bar employers from demanding higher qualifications than a job requires, a practice that can tend to discriminate against minority applicants. So when the Senate returns from its August recess, it will deal with two explosive issues centering on affirmative action...
Left in the sun's place was a black orb surrounded by a wide, shimmering halo -- the solar corona, visible only during an eclipse, when it is not obscured by the sun's bright glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through...
Since there is enough money in the state treasury to pay workers for several weeks, Weicker's shutdown was mainly designed to pressure lawmakers during round-the-clock negotiations that continued into the weekend. But the Governor will get the reform he has championed only when legislators become convinced that a more balanced tax system is the best way to end the boom-and-bust cycles of state budgetmaking...
...unemployment. After 60 years of Communist insistence that there was no such thing as joblessness in the Soviet Union, the government last week finally admitted that indeed there is and opened a string of unemployment- compensation offices. Pessimists fear that inflation and unemployment will combine to turn back the clock not only on economic reform but on the Soviet Union's nascent democracy as well...