Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tamper-resistant containers were hardly a burning issue for American industry before cyanide-spiked Tylenol capsules exposed the horrifying vulnerability of countless consumer products. Since then, however, packaging specialists have been swamped by a tidal wave of demand, and nearly 200 firms stand to reap heady gains from the crisis...
...jail and two other young men to hundreds of hours of community service. Meanwhile, Selective Service officials said compliance was rising quickly. Before the indictments began, they estimated that more than 700,000 men--seven percent of all required--had failed to comply with the law. With the wave of publicity from the summer crackdown, and with some statistical legerdemain, the noncompliance figure is now officially under 500,000--maybe less than 5 percent...
Politically, the fallout from Israel's ouster would have endangered both the Arab and the Palestinian cause. In the aftermath of all-out war in Lebanon and the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the Arabs are riding a wave of sympathy the world over. But the new-found perception of Israel as a Goliath surrounded by poor little David's would likely have shifted had the Jewish state been bullied...
...that had been inspired by the reform movement, however powerful the suasions and muscle of Poland's military regime. In Gdansk and other cities across the country last week, the union's supporters protested Solidarity's demise and ten months of martial law with a spontaneous wave of strikes and demonstrations...
Humbled by an out-of-control economy, a wave of protest strikes, and international condemnation of their quasi-official participation in the cocaine trade, Bolivia's generals were marching back to the barracks. They were not alone. During the past two years, Peru and Ecuador had already replaced uniformed leaders with civilian regimes. At the same time, Argentina's generals set a target of late 1983 for free elections, and in November Brazil's military government will allow the first free elections in two decades. Said Peru's civilian President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry: "Times...