Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated 1,000 of 1,200 basic consumer products are in short supply. When Siberian coal miners went on strike last July, one of their most impassioned demands was for soap...
...leaders of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel have become folk heroes for their ability to escape the relentless pursuit of government security forces. Last week Pablo Escobar Gaviria, 39, a leader of the drug ring that controls 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S., pulled off one of the most impressive getaways. In an operation code named Against the Fortress, some 600 police and army troops raided a ranch 70 miles outside Medellin, but Escobar managed to elude them...
...there were only two choices: hold the third national election in less than a year, or adopt the parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...
About 300 million Indians went to the polls last week, but they were not cheering for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi the way they did when he ran in 1984, two months after the assassination of his mother Indira. Surveys showed that the five-party National Front coalition, led by the mild, bespectacled V.P. Singh, stood a good chance of beating Gandhi's Congress (I) Party. Since independence, Congress has been defeated only once...
Despite the deployment of more than 1.2 million police and paramilitary troops, almost 100 people were killed last week in election-related violence. Allegations of vote fraud were rife, even in Gandhi's own constituency, as Congress used its great wealth, muscle and control over patronage to boost its chances of winning...