Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MODERN PREVENTION: THE NEW MEDICINE, Rosenfeld
...would grow more expensive for American consumers. The trade deficit would begin its long-awaited decline. Economists cautioned that it would take time--twelve months, a year and a half at the most. But it would happen. This was no idle daydream, after all, but a proven tenet of modern economic policy...
...Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who in 1943 had helped to invent the Aqualung--the precursor of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)--and used it to excavate a vessel at the bottom of the Mediterranean near the island of Grand Congloue. "That opened the door to underwater exploration for the modern day," says Wilbur Garrett, editor of National Geographic, the venerable publication of the National Geographic Society, which has since financed many undersea missions by Cousteau and others. In 1959 Cousteau invented the first small submersible, a battery-powered diving saucer propelled by jets of water that could safely carry...
Hungary's next leader will be shadowed and overshadowed by the larger-than- life legacy of Janos Kadar. In one of the great twists of modern history, the onetime Butcher of Budapest has emerged as the outstanding Hungarian figure of the 20th century. Asserts one top party official: "We expect that the Kadar era as an idea will continue even after he has left power." So does Kadar, who puts his trust in the popularity of what he has accomplished, a remarkable tribute to himself and his countrymen and the freedoms built out of that total defeat 30 years...
...having premarital sex and his sister who finds that yielding her own virginity is the only way to save him. Larry Paulsen, who displays range as the clownish Touchstone in As You Like It and as Titus' loyal brother, brings off an even trickier feat in Measure: allowing a modern audience to enjoy as fully as Elizabethan groundlings must have the dimwit puns and malapropisms of the hapless constable Elbow...