Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will those sad scenes of 1929, the stuff of flickering newsreels, replay themselves in 1989? Could it possibly happen again in this day and age? Almost no one seemed to think so only a few years ago, when the initial comparisons between the go-go decades of the 1920s and 1980s tended to downplay the possibility that the "Roaring Eighties" might lead to disaster. But now the confidence is not quite so strong. Some economists see a frightening number of current parallels with the 1920s. Moreover, those similarities are compounded by unprecedented new debt burdens and serious questions about...
...prevent a replay of the surge in sympathy for North, Biden has ordered that the table for the committee members be placed at the same level as that of the witness. In the Iran-contra hearings, where the congressional members sat on a dais, the television cameras made it seem that they were lecturing and hectoring the witnesses from on high...
...motorcade pulled up outside the Chancellery, Kohl could barely contain his distaste for the historic occasion, the first time a top East German leader had set foot in West Germany. After glumly shaking hands with the East German Communist Party chief, he bluntly waved away photographers asking for a replay. Said Kohl: "We've already done...
...neighborhood video arcade -- to play Contra. For 25 cents players can pretend to shoot their way through treacherous jungles without risking their lives or getting caught up in a covert operation. Since Contra's introduction in the spring, it has climbed to No. 6 on the chart compiled by Replay, a prominent video magazine, of the most popular arcade games...
...sure no one left the building clandestinely. In Tehran, Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami announced that the French embassy had been cordoned off and that some of its officials would be arrested for spying. His threat quickly raised fears that the French diplomats might be seized in an ugly replay of the U.S. embassy hostage nightmare of 1979-81. Warned Christian Bourguet, a French lawyer who helps represent the Iranian government in Paris: "The risk now is that the crowds in Iran might do something like what happened to the Americans. That is to say, a veritable invasion...