Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debt has increased from $1.7 trillion to $3.3 trillion since the expansion began in late 1982. If Americans cut back abruptly on their spending, the effects would ripple through the economy. Businesses would respond to the sales falloff by reducing their own spending and laying off workers, which would spark a further drop in consumer spending...
...flow to get the pressure back to normal, allowing huge quantities of propane, butane and other highly flammable gasses to escape and form an atmospheric "lake." Fatefully, two passenger trains on the famed TransSiberian Railway were passing each other when the gases, ignited probably by a spark or a discarded cigarette, detonated with the force of a ten-kiloton bomb (the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima was 12.5 kilotons...
When Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 walked into the offices of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in December, 1987 to file a gender discrimination complaint against the all-male Fly Club, she expected to spark long-term debate over the fate of the final clubs. But she probably had no idea how long that debate would last...
February 3: Freshman Monroe Trout's 21 points and 12 rebounds spark the men's basketball team to a 107-94 thrashing of Yale. The win marks the first time the cagers have ever been in first place in the Ivy League, raising the squad's league record...
...lives of 47 young sailors. At week's end investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the blast as the Iowa steamed toward its home port of Norfolk, Va. Defective electrical wiring, a damaged firing mechanism in the ship's gun system or even an errant spark may have been at fault. The tragedy ignited a new debate over the usefulness of the old dreadnoughts in the nuclear...