Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aegis system. It is designed to enable a single vessel to protect an entire Navy battle group from all sorts of attack. The Vincennes is one of eleven U.S. cruisers equipped with the system, and the first to be deployed in the Persian Gulf. Phased-array radars constantly sweep the skies over a vast swatch of ocean. They can track more than 100 aircraft, surface ships, submarines, missiles and torpedoes simultaneously. All show up as white symbols on one of four blue screens; each symbol is in a particular shape, identifying the object as airplane, missile or whatever. Computers...
Several liberal justices have gamely hung on for the past few years to avoid a Reagan sweep. Some Blacks now talk fatalistically of "living through four years of Bush." If Jackson isn't on the ticket, they figure it would be better to teach the Democrats a lesson. But having Bush appoint the next few justices could be disastrous for the next 15 or 20 years, and the symbolic show of disgust hardly seems worth the consequences. It is dangerous when there are too many liberals or conservatives in the Court, and the ball is now in the conservatives' court...
...Malard walked his acres last week and understood how others might not sense the stress. Behind him the low hills along the Missouri were beige, fringed with the green of buckbush and cottonwoods, durable species. "This time of year it should all be beautiful green," he said with a sweep of his muscled arm. The land is muted, it is leached, some of the soul sucked out and blown away. A farmer sees and knows about those things...
While details of the probe were closely guarded, its scope is undoubtedly broad. Acting with court-approved search warrants, FBI agents last week moved methodically to seize documents and computer records at 45 sites in at least twelve states. The sweep included the offices of at least five Pentagon procurement officials, 15 defense contractors and six consultants, mostly former Pentagon insiders who now work as middlemen between their former associates and firms seeking military contracts. Magistrates issued more than 200 subpoenas demanding specific records or personal appearances before federal grand juries...
...back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...