Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenuous the authority of the Soviet Communist Party now is. Striking workers might bring about not only a collapse of power in Moscow but the snapping of links to the outlying republics. A wave of secessionism might then follow, with the probability of murderous ethnic strife in its wake...
...that is popular with ranchers for killing coyotes, at a local gun store three weeks ago, after undergoing a police-file check as required by law. Canada regulates the sale of handguns much more strictly than does the U.S., but hunting guns, including semiautomatics, are widely obtainable. In the wake of last week's misogynic massacre, there were calls for tighter rules on the availability of combat- style weapons as well as soul-searching debates about the victimization of women. But the most touching commentary involved very few words. After a candlelight procession to the university, some 1,500 women...
They apparently are, since many small countries have successfully attracted banking business by creating discreet, tax-free havens. In Luxembourg total bank deposits have grown from $40 billion in 1984 to more than $100 billion last year. In the wake of a drug-money scandal involving the Florida operations of Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the country has tried to burnish its public image by declaring money laundering a criminal offense, even while it has fortified its bank-secrecy rules...
...Valdez disaster, which last March disgorged nearly 262,000 bbl. of crude oil into the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound. The images of dead birds and sea otters and miles of tar-smeared beaches graphically illustrated mankind's capacity to foul its environment. Coming in the wake of 1988, with its devastating droughts, mega-forest fires and record high temperatures, the Valdez spill convinced all but the most skeptical observers that humanity was courting ecological disaster...
...many unthinkable ideas floated in perestroika's wake, this reform ranked among the most wildly farfetched. But last week the prospect of abolishing the party's "leading role" in the U.S.S.R. gained momentum when the Lithuanian legislature voted 243 to 1 in favor of a constitutional amendment legalizing rivals to the Communist Party. While Lithuania thus became the first Soviet republic to do so, in neighboring Estonia the Communist Party Central Committee approved a similar proposal that should easily pass the legislature next month. In Armenia angry crowds surrounded parliament after legislators rejected a multiparty system. This week Andrei Sakharov...