Word: next
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police return, and Malone slowly trucks the house from the site, pulling past the Pearl Grocery Mart and onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind...
...Thursday, as the stench of decaying bodies wafted over the debris, officials gave up and called in equipment to lift off the slabs. The next night, engineers attached a cable to a pillar at a particularly fragile point of the wreckage to test the structure's ability to sustain the weight of more workers. The rubble shifted, opening a larger gap. It was a prelude to a miracle...
...guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts Wolfgang Seiffert, a former adviser in the East German Communist Party who now teaches at West Germany's Kiel University. Others see in Krenz the possibility of a Yuri Andropov -- someone who appeals to conservatives but recognizes the need for change...
From the moment in 1963 when CBS became the first network to expand its 15- minute nightly newscast to half an hour, visionaries there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head...
...leadership in the psychiatric community in the U.S.S.R." That failed to appease the majority, which seemed unwilling to , restore the Soviets' membership. Then vice president-elect Felice Lieh Mak of Hong Kong suggested a compromise: making readmission contingent on a satisfactory W.P.A. visit to Soviet psychiatric facilities in the next year. Only then did the majority swing to the Soviet side. The vote was 291 to 45, with 19 abstentions...