Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Akhromeyev's trip to the U.S. last year, he remarked privately that the experience had convinced him that the U.S. would never start a war. The Soviets clearly hoped Crowe's return visit would inspire a reciprocal conviction. But Crowe was not willing to go quite that far. He left for home, he said, "understanding emotionally what I'd only understood intellectually before: the vastness of the real estate for which the Soviet armed forces are responsible, and the historical vulnerability to invasion. That's something hard for Americans to conceive of. After all, we don't remember being invaded...
...Savannah River reactor, the only fire-fighting equipment was a garden hose. Managers left the sprinkler system off in another unit for fear that if activated it might get computers and records...
...declared that banning indecent but not obscene telephone calls for adults went beyond what was needed to protect children from such messages. He said children could be shielded from phone sex by technological restrictions, like access codes or scramblers, or requiring payment by credit card. The decision, however, still left prosecutors free to go after the billion-dollar industry for phone calls that are judged obscene...
...first time, the Communists in Greece hold the balance of parliamentary power. The Alliance of the Left, which the Communists dominate, won 28 seats and could form a government with either PASOK, which holds 125 seats, or New Democracy. Communist Party leader Harilaos Florakis also demands catharsis but so far has refused to consider entering a coalition under either Papandreou or Mitsotakis...
Before he fell ill, Papandreou, 70, hoped to talk the Alliance of the Left into joining PASOK in "a coalition of the progressive forces." He dismissed the financial scandals, claiming they are simply plots instigated against him by "foreign and domestic forces." But last week another scandal was revealed as U.S. authorities arrested 14 employees of the National Mortgage Bank of Greece on charges of illegally transferring about $700 million to the bank's central office in Athens, apparently to avoid paying taxes...