Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the centuries, few natural phenomena have inspired as much fear and awe as solar eclipses. The ancient Chinese used firecrackers and gongs to drive away the spirit they thought was devouring the sun. Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, aware that a most timely total eclipse was going to occur, escaped being burned at the stake by King Arthur's knights when he predicted that the sun would disappear. A benign form of sun worship continues to this day, not only among beachgoers but also by a group of intrepid American astronomy buffs who have traveled around the world...
...arcade operator's collection in Great Neck, N.Y., a week and a half before the exhibit was to open. The museum also unearthed one of the last surviving copies of Death Race, the 1976 game that stirred a storm of * protests when parents noticed its grisly object: to drive a car over as many pedestrians as possible, replacing them with tombstones...
...struggling to keep up with foreign rivals, manage their debt and navigate safe passage through a flagging economy. Even so, consumers and politicians are getting their message across with growing earnestness and skill. Declares Nader: "The '90s will make the '60s pale into insignificance in terms of the reform drive to clean up the fraud, waste, abuse and crimes of many corporations." Corporate responsibility will no longer be a fringe benefit but an integral part of doing business...
...cover of random gunfire, military snipers were deliberately shooting up apartments inhabited by diplomats who had the previous night disrupted what appeared to be preparations for a surreptitious execution of young Chinese men. "What they did in the foreign compound," said this intelligence expert, "was to attempt to drive out every foreign eye so they can go about their executions." Western photographers and television crews have been roughed...
What finally pushed the Jaruzelski government to the bargaining table was the same thing that sparked the popular uprisings of 1956, 1970 and 1981: economics. Although the regime could drive Solidarity underground, it could not make the country's hopelessly inefficient factories produce more or put food on empty grocery shelves. For more than seven years, Jaruzelski tried to carry out economic reforms while refusing to negotiate with Solidarity or democratize the political structure. The results were dismal: industrial production fell steadily, while the foreign debt climbed to $39.2 billion and inflation crept toward 100%. When public discontent erupted...