Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Operation Bat." This was a three-year-old effort to intercept drug smugglers on ships and in aircraft. U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean are often used to target suspected drug smugglers, tracking them until civilian police or the Coast Guard can make an arrest. In one such sweep, the 1985 "Hat Trick I" operation, some $27 million worth of drugs was confiscated...
...muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform. The Roaring Twenties gave rise to the straitlaced Hays Office of the '30s. The buttoned-up '50s ushered in the unbuttoned '60s. And, most recently, a reaction to the sexual revolution spurred a spirited crusade to reassert family values that helped sweep Ronald Reagan into the presidency...
...unlike most adaptations, David Edgar's script does not merely excerpt Charles Dickens' 800-page novel about greed vs. decency in Victorian London: virtually all of it is there, twists and turns, guffaws and grief, more than 130 characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from the sadistic Dotheboys Hall and of the innumerable...
...single stroke, the Senate bill would sweep away years of accreted tax breaks, deductions, credits and accounting rules. It is "the most radical tax bill that this Congress has seen in half a century," proclaimed the bill's chief sponsor, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Packwood of Oregon. There are legions of winners and losers on both the corporate and personal sides; yet the lure of substantially lower rates and the chance for businesses to compete on a level playing field have helped generate an unusually diverse, if fragile, alliance of more than 600 lobbying interests representing rich and poor...
...sweep of what we can do with a computer is continuing to expand. That's odd for a technology," said Newall, differentiating computers from other technologies which man has used as a metaphor for the mind...