Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressed defense firms. The General Accounting Office estimates that as much as $150 billion will have to be hacked out of defense plans over the next five years. One reason: giant, multi-year spending commitments in the early 1980s are still rolling through the budgets like a giant bow wave, pushing aside other priorities. One of the biggest is the Northrop B-2, which is now expected to cost $530 million per plane, making it the most expensive weapons system in history. Eliminating the plane would create huge savings, but the effect would be felt across...
...When we go down a road and stop at a light, white people and black people look at us all mad like," says Robert. "I wave at them. When the light changes, I wave them on and say, 'God bless...
...image is gripping: Mikhail Gorbachev as the daring surfer, nimbly sliding across a wave, vanishing into the spume, only to reappear, confidently using the giant comber looming over him to increase his speed. That is the Soviet President's way with crises. He seems to react to them faster than any of his rivals, skillfully turning them into vehicles to help accelerate his perestroika program and bolster his crusade against the immobile bureaucracy. Gorbachev's adroitness at converting danger into momentum is a high-risk performance that can make onlookers hold their breath as they wonder how long the daring...
This unprecedented loosening of central authority is a bold but risky attempt by Gorbachev to deal with the surging tide of nationalism; he has had trouble riding that particular wave in recent months. While Baltic representatives acknowledged that their economies could not yet survive under full independence, some of the more extreme Baltic nationalists hope last week's action will ultimately lead to actual secession from the Soviet Union. The Supreme Soviet seems powerfully aware of the danger. Although the enabling laws granting autonomy to the republics will not be submitted to the Parliament until October, other aggrieved national groups...
...paddled like a man for 10 whole minutes, and then got tired. The rest is history: a wave knocked the canoe over, we went flying into the water, and two guys paddled over to save...