Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spill occurred just four days before the tenth anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident that choked off the development of nuclear-power plants and led to growing reliance on coal and oil. The bill for that decision is beginning to come due. The question that will increasingly haunt energy-policy debate is this: What degree of environmental risk should be accepted for the sake of adding domestic fuel supplies to a nation that has never been able or willing to practice sufficient conservation and yet rightly views dependence on foreign-oil imports as a threat to economic and military...
Nine years have passed since an Italian-owned McDonnell Douglas DC-9 mysteriously crashed into the sea off the Sicilian island of Ustica, killing 81 people. But the tragedy continues to haunt. For years, theories about the cause have centered on poor airline maintenance or bombs...
...wife and four children. A year later, in 1980, the U.S. formally charged him with stealing $40,000. In the years that followed, Koskotas traveled back and forth numerous times to America, always unaware he was under indictment, he claims. Long after, the incident would rise up to haunt...
ALTHOUGH Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his famous treatise questioning democracy's ability to promote an effective national security policy more than a century ago, the questions that the Frenchman so presciently raised continue to haunt...
...economic bane of the 1970s returned to haunt the late 1980s? For several years, inflation has seemed like a vanquished problem of another era. Price increases during the past half-decade have been remarkably small, never more than 5% annually. Vigilant economists have spotted warning signs from time to time but never any present danger. Now, however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest...