Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co., a boutique coffee shop, ran out when the walls began to tumble, but one employee remained behind. "I heard a quick scream to my right, where she was," Barnes recalled. "I know she's in there." Friends of the missing woman held hands, weeping and calling out her name, as rescuers probed through the shambles. Finally convinced she could not have survived, they gave up late Tuesday night. That was too soon for the woman's friends, who taunted and pushed the workers, pleading with them to look again. They threatened...
...denim and hand-tooled leather, translations in street slang, Bible comic books, Bible cartoon videos and seventy times seven other gimmicky editions. Now, for the parson who has everything, here comes the ultimate in modern packaging: the Electronic Bible. This is not a new translation but a hand-held computer containing the entire scriptural text in either the King James or the Revised Standard Version. The item, manufactured by New Jersey-based Franklin Computer, will go on sale in selected retail outlets next week. Price...
Afanasyev was dismissed under the guise of requesting a "transfer to scientific work." Named as his replacement was Ivan Frolov, 60, by no coincidence a close Gorbachev ally. Frolov has held academic and journalistic posts, in 1986 and 1987 as editor of the ideological journal Kommunist. His stewardship of that once stiffly orthodox publication was marked by the introduction of new voices, including some that have been prominent in the perestroika movement...
Starkov's troubles began at a meeting two weeks ago between Gorbachev and leading media representatives. The Soviet President has held other such sessions, but this time he did all the talking. During a two-hour finger- wagging lecture, Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on liberal elements of the press, accusing them of undermining the influence of the Communist Party. He was particularly thin-skinned about press coverage of the so-called Interregional Group of Deputies, a liberal caucus in the Supreme Soviet, whose members voice harsh criticism of Gorbachev's leadership that makes its way into print. Said Gorbachev...
...leading critics clearly had tested, and broken, glasnost's boundaries. It was hardly the type / of news Gorbachev and other leaders wanted to read at a time when support for the party was visibly eroding and Establishment candidates faced even more serious challenges in local elections, scheduled to be held in some republics beginning in December...