Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calamity began on Jan. 28, when the captain of the Bahia Paraiso, a naval resupply ship that doubles as a tourist boat, sailed through waters identified on charts as having "dangerous ledges and pinnacles." The ship was shaken by a "terrible jolt," says passenger Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists...
...Reading Bonfire, one felt you were writing about the things going on around us now. Did it give you a jolt to see those things and say, "Hey, that's Chapter...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the more open method of selecting candidates will provide a jolt for his lagging reforms. As he explained during the Supreme Soviet that convened in November to approve the procedures, "If we do not carry out a political reform to back up the processes that are now under way in the economy, the restructuring drive will inevitably begin to falter...
...unlikely combination of Ronald Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi resembles nitroglycerin: it can produce an explosion at the slightest jolt. Last week, for the fourth time since 1981, just such a blowup took place in the Mediterranean skies off Tobruk, where a shootout that could have been taken right from the movie Top Gun ended in the downing of two Libyan jets by American pilots...
...borrowings. The shortage of investment can then dampen U.S. growth and damage the ability of American firms to compete abroad. In a slump, the impact can be dramatic. A study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, estimated that a new recession could jolt 10% of major U.S. companies into bankruptcy...