Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half time in national politics or, perhaps more aptly, that moment in a relay when the baton hangs between outstretched hands about to meet. Major crises were unresolved: 52 Americans were still held hostage in Iran, and the U.S. economy threatened to dip once more into recession. But on the banks of the Potomac, all seemed unusually peaceful. Congress was in recess, and Jimmy Carter was getting ready to retire to Plains, Ga. President-elect Ronald Reagan had not yet arrived in the capital. Both the old President and the new President issued remarkably similar New Year's wishes...
Room temperatures hovering at 58 degrees greeted residents returning from winter recess last Monday. The cold, combined with unsatisfactory heating over the last three months, triggered the protest...
Perhaps stymied by her spirited defense, the court went into an unexplained recess, leaving the debate phase to be finished later, possibly this week. Meanwhile, speculation swirled around a particular question: Why would Peking's current leaders have decided to step up the level of attacks on Mao even before the trial of his widow was finished? One possible explanation is that the ascendant faction led by Senior Vice Chairman Deng Ziaoping may not be opposed to an unofficial linking of the "mistakes" of Mao with the "crimes" of the Gang of Four. The pragmatic Deng seems to have...
...seems Egypt was a popular place to spend the winter recess. Though Ted Tsomides '82 who spent his vacation there with the men's crew squad reported that "not too many people spend their Christmas in Cairo," much of the Harvard community was in Egypt...
...dramatic trial of the Gang of Four and six other "evildoers" meanwhile resumed in Peking after an unexplained four-day recess. It entered its "debate" phase, in which defense lawyers can, in theory, argue the innocence of the accused. Since most of the defendants have already admitted their "counterrevolutionary crimes," the lawyers' role had been reduced to pointing out the defendants' contrite attitude and asking for lenient sentences. The main exception to that pattern is likely to be Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, who in her last court appearance was hustled from the chamber after she angrily...