Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malefic revenge in mind -- the sort of Disney horror queen who has given kids nightmares for a half-century. All these characters are given witty, hummable pop songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (the Little Shop of Horrors team), a reminder that the Hollywood cartoon has become the last, best refuge of the Broadway musical...
...colleague, TIME's worldwide publisher Bob Miller, because I want to share with you my excitement over the issue in your hands. We journalists take much of our job satisfaction from the sense that we are constantly recording history as it is made, each day and each week. Last week history came pounding over the wires into our offices and then out to the presses with unusual drama and clarity...
Rarely since the Viet Nam War had an issue provoked Australians to stage such a large and angry public protest. Late last month 8,000 citizens linked arms to form an eight-mile chain along a Queensland beach to demonstrate against a three-month-old pilots' strike that has all but crippled the * country. Said Gabrielle Gibbs, a homemaker who organized the protest: "This incredible waste of human, financial and emotional resources must be stopped...
...pain grows, the public is becoming furious with the pilots. In a Morgan Gallup poll taken last month, only 2% of the consumers surveyed said they support the strikers' wage demands. Bolstered by the customer outrage, airlines have stuck to their offer of a 6% raise, but only if the pilots agree to increase their average monthly flying schedule from 31 hours to 55. In an even tougher example of the airlines' stance, they flatly turned down an offer by the pilots to suspend the strike temporarily during the Christmas season. But if the strike carries on, spoiled holiday plans...
...allies paid facile allegiance to the goal of reunification, treating with abandon the fact that this simple dream involved some nightmarish complexities. It was an easy wish to proclaim, since it did not seem that the gods would ever grant it. Now, amid the widespread Western joy over last week's freedom dance at the Brandenburg Gate, comes a more sobering realization: the postwar division of both Germany and Europe seems to be tumbling toward the ash heap of history faster than preparations are being made for whatever new order might arise in its stead...