Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial panic about the new deadly virus has died down in this country, in Africa, where it originally developed, it is present in frighteningly large percentages and shows no sign of slowing. Also in Africa, the Ethiopian famine that prompted the LiveAid benefit concert still has a death grip on that country...
...Manuel Noriega of Panama (Spencer) and that of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling of the Bahamas (Black). Both politicians headed regimes that had full treasuries and lots of messy problems. But these drug- tainted leaders are proving to be unsavory associates for aides to a presidential candidate who favors the death penalty for drug dealers...
...Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, she had long since fallen silent as a fiction writer and would remain so right up to her death, at 63, in 1979. David Roberts' workmanlike biography generously quotes Stafford's inimitable prose voice -- elegant, tough, mordantly funny. It is a voice that is sadly neglected in today's literary scene...
...death toll from the storm's onslaught through the Caribbean islands and the Yucatan was at least 36, and estimates of the damage have reached $8 billion...
Intricate court reasoning can be hard to defend in a 30-second television commercial, however, and Bird has scarcely tried. On Labor Day weekend, with seven death-penalty cases coming up for argument before her court, she began airing a $250,000 series of campaign commercials in which capital punishment is never mentioned. Instead, in language she wrote herself, she intones from a setting that resembles a law office, "Judges with a backbone are a California tradition worth keeping." An admirable sentiment but one unlikely to disarm her opponents...