Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What scientists say is exciting about so-called cold fusion reactions is that the equipment it requires is not nearly as expensive and the energy required to start the reaction is not as great...
...March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results...
...longer a satisfactory solution; their own vast economic and political troubles were becoming an insupportable drain on Soviet resources and attention. Perhaps most important, Gorbachev recognized that it was essential to enlist economic, technological and managerial assistance from the West. The price of that was a curtailment of cold war aggression and regional agitation...
...Bush's presidency has played remarkably like The Sound of Music. It might not have worked in the cold war, but that seems to be over. Comes an economic recession, forget it. But right now, in boom and blossom time on the Potomac, Bush has astonished the Beltway punditry by achieving resounding job approval (54% last week in a TIME/CNN poll, down slightly but still substantial). All the while he has been shrinking his nightly TV presence by as much as one-third compared with his predecessor's, and often he is nowhere to be seen on the front pages...
From Cuba to Poland to Viet Nam, Moscow is scaling back its costly involvement in cold war commitments. -- Invading guerrillas, an angry South Africa and ineffectual U.N. peacekeepers threaten Namibia's future. -- After 14 years of civil war, is Lebanon at the point of no return? -- In dealing with Israel, the U.S. tries a step-by-step approach...