Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, let alone in a classroom, where doctrine has reigned and dissidence has been risky. Yet in the era of glasnost, talk like this is now allowed in schools all over the country. The stunning change came upon the insistence of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev for rapid reform in the education system. "We pin hopes for the future largely on the work of our schools," he told a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee five months ago. The Soviet people, he said in another speech, must learn history as it really happened (rather than as the party...
Instead of serving the poor communities that badly need a cheap form of public transportation, Washington's rapid transit system is primarily built for the city's plethora of government bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists...
Time for work. Low scudding clouds threatened the immediate appearance of Jupiter Pluvius, so I took the subway. New Yorkers commonly describe a ride on their beloved rapid-transit system as a journey through Hades, and mine this day was no exception. Heading downtown, I boarded one of the system's older trains -- creaking, crotchety and covered with indescribable graffiti. I looked closer at one cluster of squiggles, spray-painted by the ubiquitous Taki 183. Was it . . .? Could it be . . .? Yes, there in Babylonian script were the opening words of the Gilgamesh Epic...
...A320's rapid commercial success is hastening that trend. Orders streamed in while the plane was still on the drawing boards, and 21 customers have signed to buy 319 of the high-tech jets at roughly $35 million apiece and have taken out options for an additional 203, making it the fastest-selling airliner in aviation history. Airbus, funded by the governments of France, Britain, West Germany and Spain, desperately needs those sales because its market share and profitability have been eroded by the U.S. dollar's decline. None of the A320's buyers canceled orders last week...
...money earned from such sales is used not only to buy tanks, planes and other equipment but to develop new fighting strategies. Over the past three years the Chinese have created what they call "integrated corps," units of soldiers, sailors and marines, to fight potential invaders, and "fist squads," rapid-deployment forces designed to handle skirmishes along China's 4,150-mile border with the Soviet Union...