Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area flooded by the Iraqis as a defensive barrier. Iran has also made incremental progress southeast of Basra in the marshy terrain along the Shatt al Arab, a strategic waterway that affords access to the Persian Gulf. The new toehold has enabled the Iranians to bombard Basra from closer range...
Philosophical? Through violence, come closer to the wholesome anarchy of Rousseau's Nature. Perhaps not Noble, but certainly Savage...
Last week at Frankfurt airport, West German customs agents seized a man who had just arrived on a flight from Beirut. The arrest took place after officials noticed three suspicious-looking bottles in a suitcase the man had opened for inspection. Upon closer scrutiny, the agents recognized the liquid in the bottles as methylnitrate, an explosive similar to nitroglycerine. The man, who called himself "Youssef Rida," was immediately taken into custody and charged with planning a terrorist bombing...
...years it was viewed as an almost impossibly small dot on the financial horizon, a historic goal to be pursued in frustrating fits and starts. Suddenly, in 1986, the target became closer and more tantalizing. As 1987 brought a fresh frenzy of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, everyone on Wall Street, as well as investors across the U.S. and around the world, was caught up in the drama: Just when would the Dow Jones industrial average gather its full force and break through the psychologically portentous barrier...
...which investigates civil aviation accidents. The number of hours the average airline pilot has spent in jetliners has dropped from 2,234 in 1983 to 818 in 1985. "The demand for pilots is high, and the supply is going down," observes NTSB member John Lauber. "The carriers are getting closer to the FAA minimum training standards...