Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent meeting of the Coalition of North Eastern Governors (CONEG) has asked the state to explain "on what basis can Massachusetts justify its continued membership in compact negotiations...
DIED. Babette Deutsch, 87, poet and critic whose most luminous gift was for losing herself in another's aesthetic identity, either in translations of Russian poetry or in her own compact, restrained, imagistic verse that celebrated artists she admired (such as Wallace Stevens and Georges Braque); in New York City...
...danger, for people and governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will not easily be reversed. No one, for example, is about to rip insulation from walls or trade-in a fuel efficient compact for an oversized gas guzzler. But efforts to find alternative energy sources will diminish and conservation policies in general will take on less urgency...
During 1983, manufacturers hope to make up for lost sales. Ford plans to unveil its first compact front-wheel-drive cars, the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz, along with a new softly rounded, highly aerodynamic Thunderbird. General Motors is readying two sports cars of its own for the market: a revamped Chevrolet Corvette, and a small new two-seater from Pontiac...
...chilling days in October 1962, it seemed that John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev might be playing out the opening scenes of World War III. The Cuban missile crisis was a uniquely compact moment of history. For the first time in the nuclear age, the two superpowers found themselves in a sort of moral road test of their apocalyptic powers...