Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with irony and embarrassment over what he considered to be the advanced age and limited qualifications of the man who had been selected by the Communist Party Central Committee to succeed Yuri Andropov. But they also betrayed a deep sense of uncertainty, even misgiving, that was felt around the globe as one of the superpowers went about its secret rite of political passage for the second time in just 15 months...
...latest news from the capital of the military industrial complex courtesy of the independent Congressional Budget Office is that the Pentagon's briefcase toters conveniently underestimated the inflation rate by several points for the next several years. According to the The Boston Globe,which first broke the story this week this means that the nation's defense program could cost more than $100 billion above the costs currently projected by the Pentagon...
...fisted Soviet spy in the ill-fitting suit by encouraging KGB recruiters to go after the best that the Soviet academic world had to offer. KGB foreign agents grew more adept at pilfering high technology and stepped up efforts to spread Moscow's influence around the globe through propaganda and disinformation. But Turkish Gunman Men met Ali Agca's bungled attempt to kill Pope John Paul II in May 1981 tarnished the KGB's new image. Suspicions of a KGB link in the papal plot through Bulgarian surrogates gave rise to speculation that the Soviet agency still...
...holds commanding leads in Iowa and New Hampshire as Democrats in those states prepare to make their choices. A mid-January poll by the Des Moines Register gives him a 49%-to-20% margin over Glenn. Alan Cranston and George McGovern tied for third place at 6%. A Boston Globe survey late last month shows Mondale ahead of Glenn, 42% to 19%, in New Hampshire. Jackson is next with 10%, ahead of Gary Hart...
...rehash the details of the day's events, or fret about mediocre food, lack of sleep or insufficient time to do laundry. On one demanding day, the reporters with Glenn set out at 7 a.m. and were given no opportunity to eat until 10 p.m. Recalls the Boston Globe's Walter Robinson: "By then, we were getting abusive with the candidate." Most of the reporters on the buses are young - in their 20s or 30s - white and male...