Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galvanized by the fear that they may be next, Southern Californians are urgently reassessing their plans for coping with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents...
Rather than fearing that the crisis in California will drain resources they need for their own recovery, some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced...
"I think it works really well in a really deep sense," said Fairman, on the Valentine date. "The AIDS crisis brought out the need for love and acceptance...in loving and caring for people and really tested our culture in that way. A holiday that celebrates love is a good...
Lending institutions must compromise with Latin American governments to resolve the international debt crisis, the vice president of Ecuador told an Institute of Politics forum at the Kennedy School yesterday.
Parodi, in a forum entitled "Latin America's Debt, Mixed Enterprises & Recovery," said that the bust in world oil prices earlier this decade has thrown Ecuador into a financial crisis, making it impossible for it to service its debt.