Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July, he displays rage and range as Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic. For the engaging, intense young star, life has never been sweeter...
Meeting at East Berlin's Dynamo Football Club Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
Competing in the prestigious Soviet Elite League, Sokol-Kiev has enjoyed mixed success against powerful rivals such as Central Red Army and Moscow Dynamo. Last year, Sokol-Kiev finished fifth out of 14 teams with a 16-11-9 record...
...risk inhaling their tools or scattering them with a sneeze, but they also have to cope with a new set of physical laws. The problem of friction, for instance, looms ever larger as parts get smaller. The tiniest dust speck can seem like a boulder. Rotating a hair-width dynamo through air molecules, says AT&T's Gabriel, "is like trying to spin gears in molasses...
...epitome of Liberal Democratic rule ever since has been preservation of the status quo. The ruling party's pro-business slant and its ability ensure political stability were large parts of the impetus for the Japanese economic dynamo. For more than three decades, Japanese economic prowess was synonomous with Liberal Democratic rule...