Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind and rain. It was easy to see a metaphor of the island's economy in the plight of the smashed Kingston bank whose checks, in the aftermath, were suddenly caught up in a wind and scattered all over the downtown. "There were checks blowing around everywhere," retired Superstar Racing-Car Driver Jackie Stewart told the Miami News after weathering the storm with friends on a Kingston hillside...
Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, formerly Cambodia, in late 1978, eventually driving the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot into exile along the Thai border. The new government of Heng Samrin was itself composed of former Khmer Rouge leaders who had revolted against Pol Pot. In the aftermath of the Vietnamese invasion, the world learned for the first time that in a population of more than 7 million, the Khmer Rouge had slaughtered between 1 million and 2 million of their countrymen...
Today the discussion reflects an increasingly international-minded youth. More than 60% of Japan's 122 million people were born after the war. Innocent of both the conflict and its aftermath, the young are less concerned with Japan's uniqueness or other obsessions of the national psyche. They travel widely, identify with youths of other nations, and are as familiar with Michael Jackson and Budweiser beer as they are with Toyotas and Sony Walkmans...
...quite the impact of the best old stories. Feathers is a marvel, 18 pages that contain as many true surprises as a protracted piece of trickery by John Fowles. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love gets to the heart of sexual passion and its black aftermath. Both stories place an established couple in a charged, awkward confrontation with another couple -- a Carver specialty. He is 50 now, and considered a hot writer; 25 years after he began fashioning these tough, unliterary works, they are being picked up eagerly as emblems of late...
...crash's aftermath, each camp has recommended that the other change its ways. So far, except for mostly symbolic gestures, neither is budging. Says George Ball, chairman of Prudential-Bache Securities: "It's almost like a game of chicken. Nobody wants to be the first to give in." Even the two separate federal regulatory agencies that oversee the markets are at a standoff. If any new safeguards need to be imposed, Congress may have to take the initiative by default...