Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same form as the Holocaust, they could be equally extreme. "I have lived through a pilot project for the destruction of humanity." Pisar says, "a death rattle of the species on the eve if the nuclear age. To me the nuclear arms race is a kind of specter of a planetary gas chamber...
...Democrats responded by counterattacking. Tip O'Neill and Senator Edward Kennedy both raised the specter of a secret Republican plan to reduce Social Security benefits. But in general, the Democrats concentrated on assigning responsibility for the recession to the Republicans, calling Reagan's program a failure and inequitable. "It's not fair, it's Republican," proclaimed their ads. It was a case they couldn't fully sell...
...computers," says Computer Consultant Charles Lecht. "Students who used to fail because they could not master geometry the first time around will be able to turn to the computer for relief. The machines will emerge as great equalizers." But the majority in the field worry about the near-term specter of the rich taking control of the technology while the poor play video games...
...most dollar accounts, sharp price hikes and the second peso devalua tion in six months. Most was Silva Herzog's admission that Mexico was unable to meet current payments on its huge $80 billion foreign debt, among the highest in the Third World. The statement raised the specter of a possible default that would have a domino effect on the international banking system. No one was more concerned than U.S. bankers, who hold about 60% of Mexico's debt...
Still another overheated Watt letter, sent to 28 Congressmen two weeks ago, continued to make waves. This one was a direct defense of Watt's plan to permit oil companies to lease up to a billion acres of U.S. coastal waters for drilling. He contended that the specter of offshore oil rigs would be more palatable than explaining "to the mothers and fathers of this land why their sons are fighting on the sands of the Middle East, as might be required if the policies of our critics were pursued...