Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...path toward becoming a "less threatening" nation, Reagan failed to offer any further suggestions as to how to reduce tensions between the two superpowers. And, though he went on to mention the budget deficit as one of his regrets, he declined to speak further, saying, "I'm going to hold my tongue...
...Kent took only days to determine the cause of the crash. From wreckage recovered near the devastated rural town of Lockerbie, they examined a ripped suitcase, fabric from some passenger seats and fragments from a metal bin in which checked luggage was packed and then rolled into the cargo hold of the Pan Am 747 at London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch and the FBI jointly assumed the difficult task of finding...
Engineers at Seattle's Boeing Co., makers of the 747, said the explosive almost certainly had been placed in the aircraft's forward baggage hold, just in front of the section where the wings are attached to the fuselage. They estimated that about 10 lbs. of a plastic explosive had in effect decapitated the 747, instantly severing the cockpit and part of the first-class cabin from the rest of the plane. Because the forward luggage compartment is next to the main electronics bay, the explosion instantaneously cut off all communications, electricity and flight controls, explaining why all systems went...
What Parker hopes to show moviegoers of 1989 is a fable about 1964 -- perhaps the very last historical moment when most American whites could see Southern blacks purely as righteous rebels for a just cause. The picture may hold even truer today. Reactionary whites may not want blacks in their schools, neighborhoods or jobs, but they can feel empathy for the film's heroic Negroes. For Parker, that Mississippi summer represented "the beginning of political consciousness, not just in the South or in America, but in the whole world." Can Mississippi Burning help raise that consciousness once again, even...
...uprising in 20 months was dispelled; shortly afterward, soldiers won a 20% pay hike. By sweeping municipal elections in Brazil's major cities last November, the left posed a credible political threat to the government of President Jose Sarney. With nearly a dozen Latin American debtor nations scheduled to hold presidential elections in the next two years, some populist candidates lure voters with promises of radical solutions to break the debt squeeze. Unless the region's scarce capital can be shifted away from foreign- debt payment back into economic growth, the frail bloom of democracy could wither...