Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan also emphasized that there will be "safeguards" at the halfway house, such as round-the-clock staff members on duty. He said the house on Lee Street has an excellent reputation and won an award for its well-kept appearance...
Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...
...shirt and jeans, swallows a vitamin pill, drinks a glass of Maine tap water and turns on some hard rock on WZON. He is never dissatisfied with what he hears: after all, he owns the station. With a few breaks, he will type until what he calls "beer o'clock" -- about 5 p.m. He has been known to work into the night. The output is some ten pages a day, although with a Wang computer, "the sky's the limit." Before him lies a handful of works in progress. There is the second installment of a five-story science-fantasy...
...still stuck in Moscow; only 18% said he should not.) Reagan badly wants to wind up his presidency in a blaze of glory as the leader who restored U.S. military and economic might to a point at which he could negotiate a favorable arms-control deal. But the clock is winding down: some solid progress must be registered in the next year or so, before the U.S. becomes preoccupied with the 1988 presidential campaign...
...Soviets can hear the American political clock ticking too: they cannot be sure the President elected in 1988 will be as willing to deal as Reagan has become or will have the enormous popularity that would enable Reagan to sell a bargain to the U.S. public. Gorbachev seems eager for an arms deal of some kind: he might suffer a heavy propaganda defeat if he refused to go to a summit, but he has vowed repeatedly not to be put off again with a smile and a handshake as he was in Geneva. In recent days the Soviets seem...