Word: eruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specialists use the latest in scientific technology to compile and compare clues about nature's threatening puzzles. Such is the work, such is the mission, such are the stakes for America's disease detectives, whose special calling it is to track invisible killers, to identify mysterious illnesses that erupt from nowhere to menace life and health. Today an elite cadre of these experts?pathologists and epidemiologists, assisted by a larger army of lab technicians and doctors?are coordinating their skills in an effort to conquer a new threat: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, the confounding killer known as AIDS...
...Intelligence Agency last year at the age of 74, after devoting most of his career to highly classified duties. A specialist in Middle East affairs, he also knew which targets in the Soviet Union would be hit under ultra-secret Pentagon war plans if a nuclear holocaust were to erupt...
Prospects for a quiet summer in Cambridge are not good. War is brewing. Lines are drawn. Initial thrusts have been met, parried, and returned. The early private skirmishes in the argument over private vs. municipal ownership of a cable TV franchise in Cambridge threaten to erupt into a full-scale battle by November, at which time the city's voters will be asked to register their opinion on the matter in a public referendum...
...Libya-Sudan border. Nonetheless, Gaddafi's meddling seems tireless. Only four weeks ago, the Saudi government executed three officers who were accused of conspiring with Libyan agents to try to overthrow the Saudi royal family. Nobody can tell how and when, if at all, Gaddafi-prompted tremors will erupt. But Reagan's reference to "Libya's attempts to destabilize its neighbors" can be disputed...
...tried to represent something in the middle, as he put it, a "more excellent way of love and non-violent protest." He did so with a courage and eloquence that responded in quality to DuBois' poignant fear about his son's future. A great deal of social turmoil would erupt in the years following the Birmingham protests. The Black revolution that Malcolm X predicted held sway in riots, police confrontation, and in race relations strained to the breaking point. King himself sought to move closer to this revolution by heading street marches in Chicago and Memphis. Through the tumult rang...