Word: moment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great dark vault beneath the dome of New York City's Hayden Planetarium is thick with silence. Schoolchildren who a moment ago were babbling and twitching like a flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony hemisphere above them gleams with fire: the planets, their satellites and some 4,000 stars begin marching across the heavens toward day break. The audience sucks in its breath. A child grabs the arm of the teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that...
...moment, the mantle of interim President fell to President of the National Assembly Rabah Bitat, 53, a member of the eight-man Council of the Revolution and one of the firebrands who played a pivotal role in ousting the French in 1962. Three years later, Bitat joined Boumedienne's government after the bloodless overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. The constitution limits Bitat to a 45-day term of office, during which the F.L.N. is supposed to choose a candidate and present him to the people for election...
...Chinatown. State Department officials and representatives from China's liaison office joined other Chinese, Americans and Chinese-Americans in staging a ceremony honoring normalization. Meanwhile, supporters of Taiwan stood nearby clutching furled and unfurled Taiwanese flags as they waited their turn to demonstrate later in the afternoon. At that moment things were peaceful, though confused...
...final moment, when the White House called the congressional leaders down to the Roosevelt Room to tell them about recognizing Communist China, House Speaker Tip O'Neill leaned over to Vice President Walter Mondale and complained, "You should have consulted us." In fact, several members of Congress were consulted in an ambiguous manner that did not reveal the negotiations. But the White House will draw further away from sharing its critical confidences because it has grown increasingly aware that surprise and drama can be important factors in presidential momentum...
Crucial, too. For the moment, industry officials are going along with the price guideline, which calls for companies to hold price boosts half a percentage point below the average for 1976-77. But their compliance is not likely to last if unions push wages and benefits up beyond the 7% a year average permitted by the guidelines. Says one Administration official: "Ninety percent of the program will depend on holding down wage increases." Gentry adds: "Companies can agree to abide by the program now and always raise their prices later if things go bad. But a union that takes...