Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catherine Quinn's desperate boldness sent a wave of hope through hundreds of families who live in dread of the sudden news that their sons have volunteered to starve. When the name of the latest hunger volunteer, Liam McCloskey, 25, was announced last week, his parents protested to the I.R.A. that their son had a chronic ear infection that could cause early death. They dared to express their indignation...
...Rochberg) and so-called minimalists all striving to make new music vital again. Glass generally is lumped with Composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley in the minimalist camp because of his simple melodies and his dependence on repetition instead of traditional motivic development. An admirer of punk and New Wave music, Glass is unabashed about his aims: "We've had 70 years of pieces since Schoenberg that no one understands," he says, "so there's nothing really wrong with a little contemporary music being appealing...
...Problem," authors and others could easily imagine themselves at the console. Spurred by the new availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael Crichton (Congo) and Alvin Toffler (The Third Wave). Spy-Master Robert Ludlum endorses the Atari system in magazine ads. Though Novelist Irving Wallace still writes on a 1920-vintage portable, he has promised his secretary a processor...
...cover ourselves with glory." The very thought would sound like romantic nonsense to much of Western Europe, which today is being swept by a new wave of pacifism and neutralism. This sentiment, combined with economic strains within the alliance (all too evident at the Ottawa summit in late July), long-building political tensions, and the palpable growth of Soviet power, has brought the West once again to deep doubt about the future of NATO...
NATO reinforcement capabilities are crucial, and the new U.S. defense budgets are also addressing these needs. This means more air and sea-lift capacity from the U.S., and pre-positioning in Germany of combat equipment for the first wave of reinforcements. The purpose is to provide the maximum margin -again for diplomacy, if it could still function-before the terrible decisions on nuclear escalation would have to be faced...