Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the first round of OPEC-induced oil price shocks, Congress passed a law that required U.S. automakers to build more fuel-efficient cars. By the close of the 1985 model year, said the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, cars should average 27.5 m.p.g., vs. the gas-guzzling 14 m.p.g. that was the norm when the law was passed. Now the September deadline looms, and only Chrysler's fleet can meet the standard. Ford's cars will average 25.9 m.p.g., GM's 25.1. Technically, the two largest carmakers could face fines of up to $400 million in the case...
...resumption of dis- armament negotiations in Geneva last week, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...
...effect. In the gap between cause and effect sits gasping human will, flailing about in an effort to rationalize events that, in the end, cannot be rationalized. In 1969 a full-scale war broke out between Honduras and El Salvador that began with soccer fans clashing during the elimination round of the 1970 World Cup and concluded with bombing raids, troop movements and, eventually, 2,000 dead. Where does the historian search for the onset of that war: in the stadium or in the genes...
...meeting also failed to clear up what Paris regards as serious contradictions in other West German positions. Kohl, for example, has accepted President Reagan's request to set an early date for a new round of global trade-liberalization talks. Mitterrand has balked, arguing that such negotiations would invite U.S. attacks on West European farm policies and high agricultural tariffs. Finally, the French decry West Germany's refusal, at European Community agricultural-policy negotiations in Brussels three weeks ago, to accept cereal-price reductions that would hurt West German grain farmers...
...battle of the cities was on again as Iraq and Iran resumed the bombing of each other's capitals after a respite of several weeks. Iraq opened the latest round with air attacks against Tehran, Iran's capital, and a dozen other cities. Iran in turn fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad, reportedly destroying part of a soccer stadium, and launched air strikes against nine other Iraqi targets. Iran apparently was also responsible for a rocket strike on a West German freighter in the gulf...