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Word: crisises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each year, students arrive from across the nation and the globe. They grew up in different cultures, subscribe to different politics, prefer different foods and have differing moral values. And they are brought here and expected to eat, sleep and learn together. It is a miracle of modern universal tolerance...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Harvard--Our Big Brother? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Proof, perhaps, that a nut or two can change the course of history, the gunmen who strafed the Armenian parliament on Wednesday - although they appear to have had no particular plan or manifesto - may have managed to trigger a political crisis. The Armenian military Thursday demanded the resignation of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armenian Shootings May Provoke Political Crisis | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

The pep rally is over, and about 90 of Webster's teachers and administrators are in the library talking about two of the school's top priorities: keeping students in school--and keeping them alive. The "girl with a gun" scenario is part of an exercise in crisis management--and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 12:45 P.M. Faculty Meeting | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Instead, this very day, phone technicians are installing equipment that will make it easier to trace calls coming in to Webster High. Earlier in the day, Voss asked the school's maintenance chief, Frank Schaffer, to post two employees on the roof whenever the school has a crisis evacuation or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 12:45 P.M. Faculty Meeting | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

In Chechnya, terrorism may be in the eyes of the beholder. Russian forces, purportedly on a campaign against Chechen terrorists, fired missiles into a crowded market place and a maternity home in Grozny Thursday, reportedly killing more than 100 civilians. Although Moscow denied that any civilians had died in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carnage in Chechnya Has West Worried | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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