Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...July 1, with the deutsche mark in the G.D.R., millions of people will for the first time hold in their hands a currency that can buy things. They will not start a theoretical or philosophical discussion. Rather, a husband will say to his wife, "Let's go to Paris." And they will walk along the Champs Elysees and feel they are in the center of the world. These people will set the date of the election. I don't know the date, but I would say it will be soon...
...TIME's technological future. In the end the team decided on a combination of Apple Macintosh and Scitex computers. Since February, when the new system went into operation, TIME has been the only magazine of its size to be entirely produced electronically. Until the presses around the world start running each week, no paper is required to assemble the pages of TIME for printing...
Joyriding in Belfast is a very different sport from American Graffiti-style cruising. Kids steal a car, then speed through the streets, too often crashing through police barricades or into oncoming cars. Because the cops tend to start shooting at the first glimpse of a careering stolen vehicle, joyriders will place a four- or five-year-old up against the back window to discourage the fire. Afterward they often strip the car and sell the parts. The joyriders grab cars from Catholic more than from Protestant neighborhoods, so the I.R.A. has taken to kneecapping those whom they capture. For every...
...fire subsides, so does the crowd. A few boys start throwing petrol bombs, forcing the police vans to rumble forward. Then the etiquette of the riot begins, as predictable as it is dreary. Teenagers turn back and hurl more petrol bombs, the police reply with rubber bullets, and the rioters hide in alleys and doorways. One or two smaller boys reappear, picking their way through the narrow cracks in the violence. Brendan, 12, delivers a report. "Peelers coming up Sheridan Street." When the bomb tossing and running resume, he vanishes. The younger boys keep the danger in mind. "Rioting...
Donald Trump is up to his neck in debt, and his bankers are getting nervous. He may have to shrink his empire to stay afloat. -- A new theme park is off to a shaky but promising start...