Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...tale is but one chapter in the harrowing chronicle that emerged from Baku last week. An Armenian resident told how a group of hooligans used crowbars to try to break down her sheet-metal door. When that tactic failed, they threatened to pour gasoline through the mail slot and set the place on fire. "I knew it was time to leave," said the woman between sobs. "I have nothing left now but my apartment keys...
Though N.R.A. membership has declined by 300,000 since 1984, the group set a fund-raising record of $15 million in 1989. It spent $1.5 million to defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race, and its efforts are credited with turning a portion of the vote against him. And since 1981, when Morton Grove, Ill., became the first American town to pass a comprehensive handgun ban, the N.R.A. has persuaded 38 states to pass pre-emptive laws that prohibit similar actions by local communities...
...state battles until it is summoned by one of its affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner against the N.R.A...
...Stasi headquarters epitomized a rising impatience with the pace of change in several East European countries. Increasingly aware of the strength they can wield in open demonstrations, many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders to cling to their old jobs, or to any jobs. Yet the protesters also seem intent on bringing about open confrontations, and this has thrown into question just how orderly life in these countries will remain...
...regulations are part of a growing push for drug detection in government and industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission now demands drug testing of power-plant operators and construction workers, while the Pentagon is drafting regulations to test employees of defense contractors. To help private industry set up its own programs, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren have proposed a Senate bill that would protect employees from abuses and employers from lawsuits by establishing minimum federal standards for workplace testing. Said former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who supports the bill: "When the privacy rights of an individual...