Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such theories gained widespread credibility early last year with the publication of Yale historian Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which skyrocketed to No.2 on the New York Times best-seller list with its predictions of America's relative decline from its position of world hegemony...
Cosmos 954 is not the only Soviet satellite to fall back to earth. In January 1983, Cosmos 1402 disintegrated upon returning to earth. Some of its radiation still remains in the atmosphere. And just a few months ago, Cosmos 1900, a satellite also containing more than 100 pounds of enriched uranium 235, burned up in the upper atmosphere. Luckily, the satellite jettisoned its nuclear reactor, which is still floating in space, at a higher, longer-lived orbit...
There are approximately 40 radioactive Soviet satellites orbiting the earth today, all of which will ultimately fall back to earth. The prospect of what columnist Mary McGrory has called "flying Chernobyls" falling on our heads would frighten most of us, but the U.S. government isn't worried. Spurred on by Strategic Defense Initiative advocates, the government is planning to deploy its own earth-orbiting reactors, which would be hundreds of times more radioactive, and therefore many times more dangerous, than anything the Soviets have...
...reason for the upsurge in bad loans is that auto lenders have gone after riskier customers, among them first-time car buyers and recent college graduates. Another problem is the longer term of today's auto loans: typically 48 or 60 months, instead of 36. Some buyers' cars fall in value faster than their loan balances, so they decide to give up the auto rather than...
...defoliation of the '80s, / they deserve some recognition for their redemption. "We're trying to break the cycle of you get up, you go to work, step over a homeless person on the way to the subway, go to the gym, go to the sushi bar, go home and fall asleep," says Kenneth Adams, executive director of New York Cares, a sort of charitable clearinghouse for yuppies that has recruited 600 young volunteers to tutor dropouts, serve in soup kitchens, renovate housing and visit the elderly. "The Me generation is dying," says Adams, "and New York Cares is one example...