Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to believe that anything is awry. They preach "caution," and view the rejection of Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee and Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley as a victory for the wing's scholarly standards. The wing's lack of an expert on modern American history is attributed to a "dearth of talent...
...case won immediate fame as the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Last week it threatened to become one of the most bewildering and perhaps most bitterly contested business crises in modern memory. The $10 billion legal battle royal between Texaco and Pennzoil clearly entered a new and murky phase after the country's third-ranking oil company (1986 sales: $32.6 billion) made its bombshell decision on Sunday, April 12, to file for Chapter 11 protection. Whichever side was right in the dispute, the horrendous legal tangle surrounding the two firms vastly increased -- along with the business uncertainty...
...nightmare of the modern age: a group of terrorists, say, or a renegade nation obtains a nuclear warhead and then acquires the means to deliver the deadly device. Last week the U.S. and six allies (Japan, Britain, France, West Germany, Italy and Canada) announced an agreement that could make that scenario less likely. Each has promised not to export any missiles powerful enough to carry a 1,100-lb. nuclear warhead more than 190 miles...
...fact, such irreverence is his group's trademark. Born at Princeton University during the counterculture days of the 1960s, the Jersey Devil is a traveling band of renegade architects who rejected standard careers to design the really far out and then, in an even more radical break with modern architectural practice, get out the saws, hammers and nails and build these unusual structures themselves. Since their first project, a child's play structure built to resemble an enormous cockroach, they've painstakingly assembled twelve houses, from San Francisco to New Hampshire, parking tents, trailers or makeshift cardboard homes on site...
However, in the late 1970s, Moscow began fielding an extremely formidable new generation of intermediate-range nuclear missile. Designated by NATO the SS-20, it was mobile and carried three independently targetable warheads. By giving the Soviet Union a monopoly in a whole category of weapons -- modern land-based, intermediate-range ballistic missiles -- the SS-20 was seen to be "decoupling." Western strategists could imagine the two sides' intercontinental missiles holding each other in check while the SS-20s allowed the Soviets to dominate the intermediate-range bishops and knights in the European squares on the board. As a result...