Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deny frequently that the shadows existed. While incumbency rounded out some of his early one-dimensional ideas, Reagan clung tenaciously to his phobias concerning Government intervention and federal taxes. Even Bush has had to acknowledge that Washington must act more vigorously in some areas, but Reagan to the end fought that reality. In one of his several farewell talks, he compared advocacy of government activism to "a false determinism ((that will)) take us a mile or two more down what Friedrich Hayek called 'The Road to Serfdom...
Wyche, like every fan from the beginning of time running out, or at least since the onset of two-minute warnings, got to puzzling over why even sluggish teams always seem able to move the ball at game's end. Increasingly, he has had the Bengals operating in a hurry-up mode from the start, dispensing with huddles, relying on sinister (defined: left-handed) quarterback Norman ("Boomer") Esiason to communicate the plans aloud in a complicated tongue. The effect has been to freeze the other team's situation specialists on the sidelines or create a confusion of too many...
...news of the arrests spread, oil-union workers staged strikes and demonstrations in several parts of the country. Gasoline supplies ran out in Mexico City and other areas as panicky motorists filled their tanks. By week's end, however, strikers had returned to their jobs and gas stations were operating normally...
...boldly challenging La Quina, Salinas has perhaps signaled his intention to end the cozy relationship between the P.R.I. and corrupt labor unions. The President may have won the opening skirmish, but the war is not over. "They had to do it if they want to continue the restructuring of Mexico's economy," said a private economist. "They seemed to have planned it very well, but things could still go wrong...
...delegates from 149 nations concluded a meeting in Paris aimed at extending the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which bans the use -- but not the production and stockpiling -- of chemical weapons. The diplomats made all the right noises about the need to rid the world of poisonous gases, but in the end did little more than reaffirm the protocol. While the delegates expressed "serious concern at recent violations" of the protocol, they did not even specifically condemn Iraq and Iran, whose use of toxic weapons in the gulf war helped bring about the Paris conference...