Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Navy suffered a string of peacetime casualties in recent weeks from shipboard fires, collisions and plane crashes that left ten dead and 71 injured, it was ready for an unprecedented step. For two days last week, the Navy conducted a service-wide "stand-down." Though essential functions such as drug interdiction and Persian Gulf ship movements continued, the service halted all routine operations for two days while every officer and sailor reviewed safety procedures...
Japanese buyers may be aesthetically unsophisticated -- they buy names, not pictures -- but this will inevitably change. (It did in America, after 1890, while Europe was laughing.) The Tokyo market still has a weakness for yucky little Renoirs and third-string Ecole de Paris painters like Moise Kisling, whom nobody wanted a few years ago; one Japanese collector is the proud owner of a thousand paintings by Bernard Buffet. But the Japanese started going after bigger game about five years ago, and already the outflow is immense. Contemporary art has become, quite simply, currency. The market burns off all nuances...
Despite the string of mishaps, experts insist the Navy's safety record has improved in recent years. During the 1960s, naval aviators averaged 15 accidents for every 100,000 hours of flying time. By the mid-1980s, the accident rate had dropped...
...security zone in Eastern Europe that Stalin created turned out to be one of the greatest imaginable sources of insecurity," says Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen, co-author of Voices of Glasnost. It precipitated the cold war, provoked an armed competition with the West and saddled the Soviets with a string of costly and cranky vassals...
...will ever accuse the Harvard men's soccer team of playing out the string...