Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect $100,000 in life insurance. At the same time, they said it was also possible that the other sailor, Gunner's Mate Second Class Clayton Hartwig, 25, intentionally caused the blast to kill himself...
...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
...begins The Good Times, the second installment of Baker's memoirs. The first, Growing Up (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize, stayed on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and remains a masterstroke of unpretentious autobiography. It too got its direction from the character of Lucy Elizabeth Baker, the needy young widow whose platitudes about hard work and gumption herded Russell and his sister through the Great Depression...
...British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look for stronger leadership. Cultural anthropologist Masao Kunihiro says that during a recent lecture tour he found voters "increasingly becoming aware of international affairs"; eventually, he suggests, "they will choose more genuinely international minded politicians...
...Japanese point out, with some justification, that the trade deficit is as much the fault of America's bad habits as the result of Japan's economic policies. Says former Foreign Minister Saburo Okita: "The Americans should take a second look at themselves. Obviously they cannot go on with runaway spending forever." The U.S. borrowing-and-spending binge, which involves both Government and consumers, has boosted the tide of imports to the U.S. The Japanese also complain that the U.S. has leadership problems of its own. Washington has been sending out conflicting signals because trade policy is shaped and shared...