Word: endless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have thrown off dictatorship. Even Chile may soon follow. Regional conflicts are being resolved at an extraordinary rate. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. They are putting pressure on Viet Nam to leave Kampuchea and on Cuba to leave Angola. Iran and Iraq are in a cease-fire. Even the endless Saharan war between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas appears near settlement...
...Americans who take their civic obligations seriously, the choice that presents itself next Tuesday is inescapable. There will be no might-have-beens or none-of-the-aboves on the ballot. The primaries, polls and prognostications are merely an endless exhibition season; this is the one moment in four years that actually counts in the standings. Bush or Dukakis? Nothing less and, alas, nothing more...
...Endless variations have been tried, from circles to ovals, rectangles, hearts and butterflies, all of them flawed. Competing versions have triggered emotional controversies. "Cartographers since Ptolemy have wrestled with the problem," says Arthur Robinson, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin, who devised the projection used in the Geographic Society's new map. "Alas, there is no perfect solution...
...this seemingly endless campaign enters its final weeks, Dukakis' greatest worry is no longer Bush. His biggest enemy is time. He must also overcome a final, somewhat unexpected hurdle: Ronald Reagan. A number of polls, led by TIME's in late September, show the President's approval ratings rising again into the 60% range. That indicates a mood of public contentment that would be difficult for the most brilliantly planned and executed political appeal to overcome. Dukakis has at last got going, and shortened the odds a bit. The campaign is still alive -- but barely, and even this late infusion...
...1970s. Glashow takes the reader through the questions which increasingly precise empirical data posed, the theories constructed to explained these observations (which were often the results of faulty experiments), the shortcomings of these theories in the face of general scientific principles or new data, and so on, in an endless cycle...