Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barb Trafton: a lightweight. She won the indoor Crash-B ergometer sprints in the winter and is a favorite in the women's singles...
...conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...made quite a large crash when it fell and we all remember this moment distinctly," said Clark A. Eliott, an archive employee who was working in Pusey Library at the time of the accident...
...Hoover, a President well versed in international commerce, fall into such a trap? In part, he was bound by the 1928 Republican platform, which promised tariffs to help the ailing farm economy. A crisis atmosphere took hold a year later with the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression. For decades the Republicans had been sympathetic to protectionism; now they saw trade barriers as a means of placating demands that the Government do something concrete to fight unemployment...
...since John F. Kennedy launched a crash effort to put a man on the moon has the U.S. undertaken a public venture so ambitious or expensive. The Administration calls the program the Strategic Defense Initiative, the press has dubbed it Star Wars, and the hundreds of companies and universities competing to work on the project could easily rename it Star Bucks. Experts estimate that fulfilling President Reagan's vision of building an impregnable defensive shield against nuclear attack, if it is possible at all, could ultimately cost anywhere from $400 billion to $1.2 trillion. It would thus become the biggest...