Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign season haunted by the specter of billion-dollar deficits, many presidential candidates are being forced to respond to questions about how they would balance the federal budget. Since announcing a plan to raise taxes would be a political kiss of death, the candidates are looking for less painful alternatives...
...others, the specter of violence is harder to put to rest. "There is an entire generation in this country whose overriding psychosis is the 'bandidos,' " Mispelaar observes. "These are the first words that two- year-olds utter before they say anything else." Social workers in Maputo are trying to relieve the nightmares of abducted youths. Fernando Maposse, 14, who was captured and forced to join the rebels, escaped after accidentally killing two members of his own band in a cross-fire skirmish between the guerrillas and government troops. Maposse said the rebels crept like animals through the bush and consulted...
...event of the season, seeing the show is an exercise in long- range planning. Want a pair of $50 orchestra seats for an evening performance? The first available dates are around Thanksgiving. With Phantom productions already scheduled for Vienna and Tokyo, and others on the way, this is one specter that should be haunting theaters for years to come...
Throughout Israel's stormy 40-year history, its minority Arab community has for the most part lived peaceably within its borders. All have rights as Israeli citizens, but they are not permitted to join the armed forces. Last week's turmoil thus raised a frightening specter: subversion by a united front of Arabs inside and outside Israel. The uprising, said the newspaper Ha'aretz, is "writing on our wall even more serious than the bloody riots of the past two weeks in the territories...
While in 1986 Italy was enjoying the fourth year of stable government under the leadership of Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, the specter of a return to the "bad old days" now looms large, particularly after the temporary fall of Goria's coalition in November. Laments Treasury Secretary Giuliano Amato: "Item by item, you go through the list of changes, and every plus is now a minus." After Goria offered his resignation, President Francesco Cossiga asked him to try again, and Goria quickly returned to office with a new vote of confidence. But the next political crisis was already waiting...