Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling since February to measure the Z 0. Despite delays in getting the machine up and running, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, in California, have already produced 120 Z 0s. That is enough to calculate the particle's mass more accurately than ever before. And by the end of the year, when the number of Z 0s produced is expected to reach 2,000, the Stanford scientists think they could have the Z 0's life expectancy pinned down. But by that time the LEP may have beaten them to the goal. "I had hoped," acknowledges Burton Richter...
...scaling back the U.S.S.R.'s foreign entanglements: they are expensive, diverting resources that might otherwise go to domestic reform; and they provoke worldwide antagonism at a time when Moscow is looking for capitalist goods and credits. So Gorbachev has withdrawn Soviet troops from Afghanistan, encouraged the Vietnamese to end their occupation of Cambodia and warned Fidel Castro that the Kremlin will not indefinitely underwrite the export of revolution in Latin America...
...opportunity for the U.S. to move "beyond containment." Already there has been a shift in U.S. policy toward diplomatic compromise in all three of the principal regional conflicts. In Nicaragua the Reagan Administration wanted to overthrow the Sandinistas; the contras were a means to that all-or- nothing end. The Bush Administration, by contrast, is seeking a political settlement that would entail some sort of power sharing between the Sandinistas and their opponents. During consultations on Cambodia in Brunei last week, Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that the U.S. is more willing than it was a year...
...younger generation which took women's freedoms for granted has just been the patient of shock therapy. The abortion issue, in the end, may have finally gotten the Woman's Movement moving again...
...spoiling the movie for you to reveal that they get married in the end. Sappy and predictable, the overdramatized ending might leave some disappointed. But it is a climactic release to what has been building since Harry first tells Sally that she is "empirically very attractive...