Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated him there for nearly two weeks. Weymouth finally convinced them that he was not seeking to defect--just wandering...
...decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected some of the methods that lower courts had tried for putting brakes on RICO. Justice Byron White concluded for the majority that while Congress may not have expected legitimate businesses to be targeted so easily by RICO, "this defect--if defect it is--is inherent in the statute as written, and its correction must lie with Congress...
...didn't catch the hospital's mistake, what if four years later the child she brought home died? Looking in the scrapbook she discovered the bracelet and realized the babies had been switched. Would she then be entitled to get her real daughter back from the Amzallags, claiming genetic defect...
Only later did the Soviet press begin to carp that capitalist competitiveness had been responsible for undue haste in U.S. space projects. Komsomolskaya Pravda charged that the accident showed the frailty of Reagan's antimissile Star Wars program and asked, "What if lack of caution, a technical defect or sheer chance should bring the world an unforeseen nuclear...
...when Medved was interviewed a second time by State Department officials, he denied that he had ever wanted to defect. And not wanting to jeopardize U.S.-Soviet relations on the eve of the first superpowwow in six years, Administration officials decided not to press the issue...