Word: meltdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. Large populated areas surrounding the reactor site in the Ukraine and in nearby Belorussia remain contaminated with high levels of radioactivity. The poisoning of the land has created dire health problems and economic devastation. A new study by the chief economist of a Soviet government institute calculates that the cost of Chernobyl, including the price of the cleanup and the value of lost farmland and production, could run as high as $358 billion -- 20 times as much...
...Trump story may be the Three Mile Island of journalism: a meltdown waiting to happen. We've all known for years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...
...emerged from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone, the obsession with appearance as opposed to substance. These are the warning signs of meltdown. Ciao, Nelson. Hello, Donald. Hello, Ivana...
...Gorbachev is responding primarily to internal pressures, not external ones. The Soviet system has gone into meltdown because of inadequacies and defects at its core, not because of anything the outside world has done or not done or threatened to do. Gorbachev has been far more appalled by what he has seen out his limousine window and in reports brought to him by long-faced ministers than by satellite photographs of American missiles aimed at Moscow. He has been discouraged and radicalized by what he has heard from his own constituents during his walkabouts in Krasnodar, Sverdlovsk and Leningrad...