Word: driving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 29: President Bok, dismayed by the lackluster results of Harvard's capital fund drive announces his conversion to born-again Christianity. Singer Bob Dylan donates all the profits from his last album and asks that the next available library be named after...
June 19: Indira Gandhi consolidates her hold on the Indian electorate. Pointing to the dangers posed by Vietnamese troops who have expanded their drive to include an advance on Bangladesh, she reimposes martial law and orders a speedup in nuclear weapons production, threatening to "turn Hanoi into a parking...
After 1977, when foreign cars grabbed a then record 16.7% of the market, their sales began to slip, partly because the yen rose enough against the dollar to drive the prices of Japanese imports up by 25%. But suddenly last spring, gasoline shortages reappeared, and demand for small cars took off. Because Detroit does not as yet produce enough economy models, thousands of would-be American car buyers have been forced to turn to imports...
...1970s, an age of specialization, reporters like Murrow had metamorphosed into "investigative journalists" like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the enterprising Washington Post reporters who cracked the smilingly slick evil of Richard Nixon. They continued the tradition, and if they didn't have Sinclair's poetic ability, drive and something of his anger, they were heroes of a sort to a shocked America...