Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lotteries took in $17 billion last year, up 230% from 1983. As the lotteries have proliferated, so have the jackpots: Pennsylvania's $115.5 million drawing in April prompted bettors from Long Beach, Calif.; Long Island, N.Y.; and points between to flock to the Keystone State, where many stood in line for hours to buy tickets. A few years ago, a $5 million lottery prize was front-page news in most of the country; today it barely rates a paragraph on page...
...waning years of the 20th century, the greatest challenge posed by Communism will not be containing its spread but coping with its decline. From the bloodshed in Beijing to the political paralysis in Poland, efforts to shed hard-line systems are provoking agonal gasps that are at turns cheering and frightening...
...environmentalists' stand could push the timber industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...
According to Kessler, the National Security Agency did indeed find Soviet bugs in the code room in August 1987. The KGB had replaced key circuit boards in the printers; it had also replaced the power line to the communications center. The reprogrammed circuit boards sent an uncoded copy of the text of all State Department and CIA message traffic to the new power line, which could carry it out of the embassy and into the hands...
...unauthorized replacement of the power line to the PCC was found. Moreover, even if the power line had been replaced, the new wire could not carry electronic signals out of the embassy, sources say. Reason: the power line to the PCC is filtered to eliminate all such signals, and monitored to detect any possible radio transmission...