Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev's other major domestic problem will be coping with the cost of the earthquake, likely to rise to the tens of billions of rubles. The long restoration of the quake-stricken region will drain money from an economy already reeling from a series of setbacks. The cleanup costs for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster swallowed 8 billion rubles, about $12.8 billion. This year the Soviet budget is already expected to run a 36 billion-ruble deficit. The government has also suffered falling revenues from declining international oil prices and from its campaign to crack down on vodka consumption...
Cars, trucks, buses and cranes creep slowly day and night up the narrow, winding roads across the Caucasus range to the stricken area about 50 miles away. The sound of honking horns and grinding engines breaks the mournful silence of stricken villages and cities...
Crates of supplies flown in by more than 40 foreign aircraft were stacked around the airport tarmac waiting for trucks, buses and helicopters to take them to stricken areas...
...rest of the cast are uniformly good, if occasionally stricken with a slight first-weekend woodenness which should disappear. Steve Peterson, measuring in at somewhere over six feet, uses his own position somewhat nearer to heaven than most to his advantage as the omniscient and condescending Mr. Jordan, but it's hard not to miss James Mason in the role. Patrick O'Kelley provides a deliciously loathsome Tony Abbott, the sleazy lover who tries to drown his millionaire boss and make off with his wife...
...life, as are the lives of many children afflicted with cancer, was a profile in courage. Stricken with the disease at age 10, Tom missed most of his sixth-grade year because of intensive chemotherapy but insisted on being promoted with his class. In spite of significant physical limitations, Tom strove to be normal and did more than succeed. He graduated third in his class with high honors from Noble and Greenough High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the campus literary magazine, captained the golf team and won the school's highest award for creative writing...