Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more concilliatory note, council members commended the Committee on the Homeless of the Phillips Brooks House Association, which for the eighth consecutive year has organized the Homeless Winter Shelter in the basement of the University-Lutheran Church...
...long as I'm looking for the silver lining, I may as well also mention that I'd rather be inside Quincy House being shaken all to hell than outside all winter doing the shaking...
...dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo's path." So even as an army of workers moved in, a phalanx of hoteliers and government officials set out to persuade the travel industry that there would be no trouble in paradise this winter...
...Soviet Union's farcical economy has long been the butt of its citizens' jokes. A cynical sense of humor has helped Soviet consumers endure the almost full-time occupation of waiting in queues for necessities and the utter lack of quality and variety in consumer goods. But with the winter of 1990 approaching, even the thriving joke mill may not be enough to help people forget the grinding deprivation. The accumulated ills of the Soviet economy have brought it to the brink of collapse. Foreign analysts, along with a new breed of frankly realistic Soviet economists, are ringing alarms about...
...minimum, Mikhail Gorbachev's dual program of glasnost and perestroika may collapse if the downward spiral is not halted by the end of 1990. At worst, the growing shortages of energy and food this winter could wreak social mayhem. "If we don't see improvement in the stores, we will soon see riots in the streets," warns a top Soviet criminal lawyer. "Anything could spark it. And the government would have to suppress it with force." Among the signals of trouble...