Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syria during the invasion of Lebanon, Assad has rebuilt not only his country's armed forces but its image and its diplomatic position. Far from humbled, he has acquired a decisive voice in the future of Lebanon and of the Palestinian movement. At home, thanks to a steel-fisted grip that has squelched most of the opposition to his regime, Assad is more secure than at any other time in his 13 years in office...
...ruthlessly silencing any potential opponents. Since 1980 more than a hundred political prisoners have disappeared, never to be heard from again. Amnesty International, a London-based organization that monitors violations of human rights, has received hundreds of accounts of torture in Syria, ranging from electrical shocks to beatings with steel cables. Much of the torturing is reportedly done in al-Mezze military prison in Damascus. Syrian security forces are also suspected of reaching beyond the country's borders to silence opponents of the regime...
...flooding, while the scorching sun broiled farmlands thirsting for rain. For the first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late to save much...
...economy continues to pick up speed with surprising swiftness. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that U.S. industrial production, led by sharp increases in the output of steel and autos, surged 1.8% in July, the eighth monthly increase in a row. Convinced that consumers will continue spending freely, companies are rushing to rebuild their inventories. And with good reason: retail sales in July increased 10.3% from the same month a year ago. Sales of domestically produced autos jumped 38.5%, while home furnishings, including furniture and appliances, were...
...Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...