Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was the high point of a frustrating four years in the White House. For our first fundamentalist President, bringing the leaders of two holy land nations together for un-precedented face-to-face negotiation was more than just a political maneuver. The quest for peace in the land of the Bible has been a special concern of Carter's, a concern that outlasted his pay in the oval office...
...most important ideological element in American history has been the desperate search for the Big Score, the Real Deal, the pot of gold at the end of the red, white, and blue rainbow. The quest for the material epiphany to the American dream attracts thousands to Hollywood. Las Vegas, Wall Street, and even a ramshackle Wyoming boomtown called Gillette...
Stroudsberg was on its own quest for revenge after Princeton knocked it off in this same round of the eastern playoffs last year...
...characters into frantic motion across what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the Arthurian legends. As he takes up the pursuit of Angelica, Persse becomes Percival on the trail of the Grail. For Zapp the quest centers on the newly endowed UNESCO chair in literary criticism, a post that pays $100,000 a year, tax free, and carries no duties whatever...
Western companies were invited to show off their personal computers and other educational equipment at a trade fair held for nine days last January in the center of Moscow. Among the 50 firms that mounted displays were Britain's Quest Automation and Sinclair Ltd.; no U.S. makers were represented. The fair was a hit with Muscovites, who paid 50 kopecks (about 75 cents) for tickets and crowded into a pavilion that was blinking brightly with video screens. Computers were also on prominent display at a Moscow robotics trade fair in February...