Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable $1.33 trillion in 1986, up 25% from the previous year. By contrast, in a complete reversal of the situation only a decade ago, U.S. holdings abroad now total only $1.07 trillion. In addition to spurring fabulous hikes in real estate values and igniting corporate takeovers, the wave of foreign purchases has become an important force behind Wall Street's stratospheric bull market...
President Chun Doo Hwan, who retires in February, had favored an electoral college system that his party could control. But Roh, Chun's hand-picked choice as his party's candidate, gave in to popular demands for free elections after a wave of student protests last spring. Roh stood fast, however, on a number of other demands made by opposition leaders. He refused to agree to lower the voting age from 20 to 18 and rejected calls to establish a popularly elected office of Vice President...
Street crime is producing the strongest backlash. The problem is not murder and armed robbery but a wave of thievery and vandalism, much of it committed by drug addicts and squatters. In Rotterdam, theft has increased from 8,000 cases a year in 1960 to 64,000 in 1986. Radical "proletarian shoppers" help themselves to supermarket goods, frequently with impunity. Even Christian Democratic Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, who presides over a center-right coalition government, has been touched by crime. Twice within the past year, Lubbers has chased down men who broke into his wife's car and held them...
...squatters battled police for the better part of a day, injuring 19 officers and causing $2 million in damage. The country was shocked by the realization that for several hours it was the krakers, not the authorities, who controlled the downtown of a major city. In the ensuing wave of indignation, politicians clamored for new laws against squatting...
...chute, the mustang lays back her ears indignantly. Robinson, 28, tall and powerfully built, eases atop the animal, and she erupts in furious leaps. Fellow convicts pull Robinson to safety. Released into the corral, the mare kicks like a ninja assassin as cowboys in green prison garb shout and wave their Stetsons to keep her from banging into the fence. Robinson climbs on again and seconds later is bucked into the dust. Yet even a wild horse eventually tires. Another man mounts up, the mare crow-hops a bit, stiff-legged and snorting. But her fight is gone...