Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing in our culture, in our cities, a kind of siege mentality. A lot of these books reinforce this, make it sort of normal to think that the world is a place in which violence can erupt at any moment...
...democracy. Call it anarchy. Call it gridlock. Call it another lesson in Governing 101 for Bill Clinton, now in the fifth month of his increasingly troubled presidency. Whatever it's called, the skirmishing between Clinton and Congress over the President's proposed deficit-reduction and tax plan threatened to erupt into all-out war last week as Republicans and several Democrats in both the House and Senate publicly attacked the proposal. If the Clinton package still has a fair chance of eventually passing in one form or another, that is less a tribute to the White House's political acumen...
...Texas, the NRA finally found legislation it could support: a state legislator's plan to legalize the possession of concealed weapons. Gov. Anne Richards will undoubtedly veto the measure, and the fight will erupt when the state legislature tries to override her veto...
...intervening forcefully in Bosnia, the world ensures that a wider conflict will erupt, one which could be easily avoided...
Michael L. Campbell '93, one of the participants in the discussion, said that talking about such sensitive topics was important "so that issues are dealt with before events erupt...