Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travel season, the Federal Government is recording a surging number of delayed flights, near midair collisions and air-traffic- control errors. The airlines, on the defensive as never before, are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing a growing indignation in Congress and thus heading off a wave of legislative proposals to crack down on the industry...
Toshiba will be hard hit by the ban if it becomes law. The Japanese conglomerate last year exported to the U.S. $1.7 billion worth of VCRs, home computers and semiconductors, among other goods. Congressional sanctions might spark a wave of layoffs at the firm's U.S. subsidiaries, which employ 4,500 workers...
...most popular water bed is still the original water-filled vinyl bag set within a plastic or wooden frame. Fast gaining in appeal, however, is the soft-sided bed made of vinyl with foam baffles, cells or cylinders inside that reduce wave motion. Water temperature can be varied by a thermostat-controlled heater mat that plugs into a wall socket...
Since 1980 Bentkowski has designed four TIME special issues. These were in- depth reports on the Soviet Union (1980); Japan (1983); the latest wave of immigrants to the U.S. (1985); and American Best (1986), a journalistic celebration of everything that America and Americans do well. His eye-catching page design has also sharpened the look of TIME's annual Man of the Year and Images issues. Not surprisingly, many of Bentkowski's visual ideas have made their way from the special issues into our regular weekly pages. "Within the confines of TIME's weekly responsibilities," he says, "we've tried...
Some tourism officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...