Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from U.S. companies. The Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand, which has opposed the idea of sanctions from the start, ordered the state-owned engineering firm Alsthom-Atlantique to ignore the new U.S. sanctions and sell Moscow the sophisticated turbine rotors that are needed to pump the Soviet gas westward. Since the French company had acquired the right to produce these rotors under a licensing agreement from a U.S. company, General Electric, the French government was in effect telling Alsthom-Atlantique to violate the terms of the license. Said Premier Pierre Mauroy: "France cannot accept unilateral measures taken...
...They often see things the way a scriptwriter might. Concludes Ricardo Montalban's memoir, Reflections-A Life in Two Worlds: "If we are free and open and giving, our lives will be full and fruitful... Those thoughts and a thousand others flowed through my mind as I motored westward toward the waning...
...Basin extends from Boston' Harbor to a ridge of volcanic rocks running from Milton north to Lynn and westward to Route 128. The discovery, which is formally announced in the May 7 issue of Science magazine, solves a "mystery plaguing us for over 100 years," said Elso S. Barghoorn. Fisher Professor of Natural History and another participant in the year-long research project...
...formed in 1885, nine years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. The firm's network of wires began snaking westward from around Hartford, Conn., and New York City. The company now has a total of some 1.7 billion miles of cable, microwave radio and satellite circuits that form the heart of U.S. telecommunications...
Gaddafi came to power in 1969. Then a captain in the Libyan army, he staged a bloodless coup against the country's effete, Westward-leaning monarch, King Idris. Shortly after the coup, Gaddafi proclaimed the principles of his governmental policy, which included the elimination of all foreign bases (including the American-run Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli), neutrality in foreign policy and national unity in a country that until then had been sharply divided along provincial and tribal lines. A year later, Gaddafi announced that not only had these objectives been met but that the minimum wage had been doubled...