Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel...
...often been that way. In the 1950s China was the Soviet Union's little brother, a junior partner in the world Communist conspiracy. After they broke ranks in 1960 over Chinese objections to Soviet lapses in ideological purity, each fiercely cold-shouldered the other. It was Mikhail Gorbachev who stepped up overtures to his populous and powerful neighbor three years ago. In a 1986 speech in Vladivostok, the Soviet leader offered to create "an atmosphere of good-neighborliness," and to do so "any time and at any level." Soon after, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping said he would meet with Gorbachev...
Moscow had several motives for acting the suitor. To some degree, its concessions were part of Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. A continuation of cold-shoulder policies between two of the world's great powers made little diplomatic sense. "There have been no benefits from this rift for anyone," says Mikhail Titarenko, director of Moscow's Institute of Far Eastern Studies...
...Arctic Circle, has long endured jokes about its name. But last week no one in Coldfoot -- or anywhere else in Alaska -- was in much of a mood to laugh about the temperature. For a whole month, the entire state had been gripped by one of the fiercest Arctic cold waves on record. Some towns in the interior registered temperatures as low as -75 degrees F for days a time. As for Coldfoot, an unconfirmed reading there two weeks ago put the temperature at -82 degrees, colder than the official North American record of -81 degrees set in the Canadian Yukon...
...wincing. Says Mitch Falk, manager of Aurora North Fuel in Deadhorse: "It's not too bad at 45 below, but 60 below takes it out of you." At the Corner Bar in Nenana, which is usually busy even in -25 degrees weather, no one was coming in for a cold beer...