Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Responding to a spate of hooliganism in 1985, 18 of baseball's 26 teams (including the Dodgers) have closed their bars after the seventh or eighth ^ inning, twelve have instituted nondrinking "family" sections, and a few have decreased the alcohol content of the beer and banned carry-ins. In Baltimore...
* Even as the U.S. and the Soviet Union discuss deep cuts in nuclear missiles, a different Soviet threat is appearing on a new front. Last Thursday, two newly modified Tu-95 "Bear" long-range bombers, flying out of Siberia, were spotted winging toward Alaska's southwest coast. Two F-15...
Even something as simple as food shopping has become a duel between occupier and occupied. The uprising's leaders set opening hours for stores, usually three a day, and frequently call full strikes. But the army is determined to rule commerce and now often shutters shops in reprisal for days...
Nor is this a la carte approach to alliance membership confined to nuclear- deployment issues. France began the trend in 1966 when Charles de Gaulle closed down NATO bases and pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined...
"No thanks," I said, and closed the door.