Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that led to the execution of the second and third highest officers of government rated two paragraphs. Murders of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia were cited in part of one paragraph in a more general story. That was in the Times, which excels...
...Cultural Revolution's aftermath makes the point. Very little effort has ever been spent investigating the question of why so many followed so dastardly a design. Personal accounts of the period's horrors have been written ("scar literature" it is called). But unlike the Germans, who have collectively wrestled with the Holocaust's blackest implications for 40 years, the Chinese appear content to let the past rest...
...barrier to political unification. Only last week the E.C. warned of "worrying delays" by member countries in implementing single-market legislation. But Project 1992 has given fresh momentum to a process that has taken Western Europe further down the road to unity than could have been imagined in the aftermath of World...
...legal defenses began after World War II, when both African National Congress President Oliver Tambo and nationalist leader Nelson Mandela began their careers as lawyers. The fact that Tambo is in exile and Mandela in prison illustrates how perilous that course was. The LRC had its origins in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design...
...aftermath of a fiery DC-10 crash, an elite cadre of aviation lawyers is squaring off with insurers in a fierce legal battle. Millions of dollars may be involved...