Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in 1980 to an estimated $110 billion last year. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who visited the U.S. to confer with Secretary of State George Shultz, called the oil plunge a threat to peace in the Middle East and urged Western countries to begin a modern-day Marshall Plan to aid the region, using some of the money saved by lower oil prices...
...Modern Times...
...test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
...voting began on April 1 and will continue over a twelve-day period so that Sudan's 6 million registered voters (out of a population of 21.8 million) will have a chance to participate. The vast, sparsely populated country has no modern nationwide telephone system and only a rudimentary road network. Mobile voting booths were trucked to some particularly remote regions. Nonetheless, enthusiasm for the balloting was apparent. Said Mohammed Abbas, 32, a graduate student at the University of Khartoum, who had been imprisoned under Nimeiri: "Sudan is a better country today. There is a real attempt here at freedom...
With no magic bullet to shoot them through the heart, the city burned the modern heretics at the stake. The water washed the city's hands. As Ramona said to the judge at her trial, "The whole city of Philadelphia is trying to wash the blood of Move people off their hands and they're using you as the water...