Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
Ford, flush with profits after four prosperous years, will acquire instant . access to the market for ultra-luxurious driving machines. Automotive experts expect Jaguar to use the cash infusion to develop new, more competitively priced models...
Seven years have passed since the Viet Nam memorial was dedicated in Washington. Seven years since the heated, at times ugly, controversy that swirled around the design and its designer seemed to evaporate, in an instant, once the nation could witness for itself the overwhelming effect those two walls of polished black granite have on all who visit them, place flags and flowers beside them and touch the more than 58,000 names inscribed on them...
...season, Coach Nita Lamborghini gave her lemon a fuel injection. She recruited reliable center back Erin O'Brien to shore up her porous defense. Explosive forwards Sharon Landau and Cutone were brought in to add scoring punch to a lackluster offense. And three-sport superstar Char Joslin was an instant hit, nabbing All-Ivy honors her first season...
...television is so taken for granted these days that viewers are no longer amazed when a crackdown in Beijing or a hostage crisis in Beirut magically materializes in their living room. Far more surprising, and a bit unnerving, was the eerie sensation Tuesday night: the tidy coherence and instant packaging that normally make television such a reassuring national touchstone were replaced by the unusual experience of watching as the medium was forced to grope in the dark. "When you're used to being able to flick switches and have things pop up on satellites, it's frustrating and even terrifying...