Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wires hold. Belfast is rich in wire, coiled and barbed, and in corrugated iron. (You could make your fortune in corrugated iron here.) Great sheets of it are slabbed up in front of government buildings and on the "peace line" that separates the Catholic Falls Road from the Protestant Shankill. In the centers of the streets are "dragon's teeth"?huge squares of stone arranged in uneven rows to prevent fast getaways. Downtown in the "control zone," no car may be parked unattended. Solitary figures sit like dolls behind the wheels to prove there is no bomb. Armored personnel...
...with sallies of vituperative propaganda, sword-rattling threats and hints that a reduction of Soviet economic aid might put some backbone into Warsaw's fainthearted leadership. Kania was summoned to Moscow and lectured at least three times. He and his fellow centrists were forced to perform a precarious high-wire act: on the one hand, they sought to accommodate demands for liberalizations coming from Solidarity and from their own rank and file; on the other, they had to protect themselves against Warsaw party hard-liners and convince the Soviets that they were still in control...
Some $2.7 million worth of chips, the flake-size bits of silicon that are the brains of computers, was locked inside wire mesh cages that were surrounded by motion detectors, monitored by closed circuit television and watched by guards. The 498,000 chips were soon to be shipped to companies like Data General, Apple and Hughes Aircraft and would eventually find their way into video games, home computers and space program equipment...
...Boston Celtics nipped the Detroit Pistons in a down-to-the-wire thriller, 115-114, on Larry Bird's reverse fade-away jumper with only two seconds remaining in last night's game at the Garden...
...could trigger World War III. The priest's journal is finally retrieved by a comely, red-haired reporter, Rita Macklin, who, unlike most other fictional red-haired reporters, is both credible and vulnerable. Schism, like his first novel, November Man, shows Bill Granger to be deft at high-wire suspense. His prose has the gritty tone of a Le Carre and a special feeling for a burned-out case...