Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious in doling out its moisture. God may be in his heaven, but for the nonce he is not a Republican and not at the end of Bush's overheated phone line...
...scene, no matter how often it is played back in the mind, still shocks and horrifies. At the end of a rally of opposition forces protesting the blatant exercise of electoral larceny in Panama, a band of T-shirted men suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With grotesque inappropriateness, they styled themselves the Dignity Battalion. As troops of the Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second...
...next important test will be the Administration's position on proposed revisions of the Clean Air Act, which the White House has promised to announce by the end of this month. Environmentalists want Bush to back, among other things, tough new limits on smokestack emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain. But that could cause a political backlash in states that produce high-sulfur coal, such as Illinois and Pennsylvania. "It's decision- making time for George Bush," says John Adams, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Unless he acts credibly, his environmental image...
...technological forerunner of the modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and software that convert human speech into bits of digital code. These digitized voices can then be stored on magnetic disks and retrieved in a flash, just like any other piece of computer data...
There is an additional concern among foes of legal intervention. They fear that the real goal in these cases may be an unspoken one: an end run around the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision found that the rights of the mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious...