Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airlines are finally fighting back. Leading the way is Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways. In the aftermath of the assault on Weir, who required 18 stitches, Branson engineered a British lifetime air-travel ban on Handy. As the industry convened last month in London to address the overall problem, he urged carriers to establish a worldwide air-rage database to blacklist the worst offenders. "There [must] be a deterrent against this behavior," Branson says...
...lack of feeling towards the characters can be translated into the lack of empathy for another culture, race or religion that allows atrocities like the Holocaust to happen. It seems to have been Appelfeld's intent to lull us into a state of complete emotional suspension. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, it seems that we commonly ask ourselves how the Holocaust could have ever happened. Appelfeld reminds us why it was possible. And as dark as the issues he raises may be, they never fail to come across with a devastating subtlety not necessarily found in many post-Holocaust...
...principal, and eerie, pleasure of McEwan's telegraphically terse novel is how quickly the agreement between Linley and Halliday turns murderous. For the aftermath of Molly Lane's death inexorably destroys an enduring friendship. Halliday is offered photographs that Molly had taken of Foreign Secretary Garmony in transvestite regalia. The editor feels he must publish them, both to keep his failing paper alive and to save Britain from a reactionary politician who may become Prime Minister. Linley disagrees, telling Halliday that publication of Molly's photographs, obviously private and taken in mutual trust, would be a betrayal...
...Records, pushed back the release date for one of his groups, the vocal quartet 112, to avoid the crush. "People are putting out albums because it's the holiday, not because the albums are ready," says Combs. "There's a lot of greed out there." He predicts the aftermath of Super Tuesday won't be pretty: "It's going to look like a crash on Wall Street...
...AFTERMATH...