Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, is counting the U.S. out in the innovation derby. If anything, the Japanese challenge has created a competition that should jolt the U.S. out of its complacency. The beneficiaries of this continuing battle for technological supremacy will be consumers worldwide...
Using the sky as a focal point for education is the brainchild of a retired Boston newscaster, Jack Borden. Ten years ago, while hiking, Borden gazed up and felt the jolt of an epiphany. "I had never really noticed the sky before," he recalls, "and its beauty, majesty and fragility just overpowered me." Expose children to this great expanse, he reasoned, and you have a thematic catalyst that spans the three Rs, encompasses the arts and sciences and engages the mind in a voyage of self-discovery. Borden, now 59, decided to take his inspiration to local schools...
Dukakis was the best-organized Democratic candidate in Minnesota and spent the most money. His supporters recognized that anything less than a victory in Minnesota would jolt his effort to prove he could win outside the Northeast...
...after the Iowa caucuses, an earthquake shook New Hampshire. It was a small tremor, just enough to give folks a jolt. On the same day, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas swept into the Granite State for a final round of campaigning before this week's primary. The often tightly coiled politician seemed a changed man: jaunty, self-possessed, rejuvenated. After winning the Iowa contest with 38% of the Republican vote, he suddenly had the aura of a champion. "We're winning!" he exulted as he greeted a supporter in Nashua. His rhetoric was sharper, his jokes funnier, his rapport with...
...Seville had been something of a sleeper. The games had been mostly lackluster, with all but six of the first 22 ending in a draw, as the two Soviet opponents reined in their simmering disdain for each other. But last week the chess world came awake with a jolt...