Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near future, water could be the catalyst for armed conflict. Israel and Jordan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and India and Bangladesh are but a few of the neighboring nations at odds over rivers and lakes. Warns Arnon Sofer, professor of geography at Israel's Haifa University: "Wars over water might erupt in the Middle East in the '90s when states try to control each other's supplies...
...they were "responsible people." Michel, charged by the White House with the task of working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when Gingrich pops up breathing fire and smoke on the TV screen, some staff members erupt in groans or laughter while the leader flushes and sometimes shakes his head in despair...
Until the minds meet, the perception gap will widen, and some predict that unless festering tensions subside, violence may again erupt in Greensboro. , Even today the Klan shootings linger like a bad dream. In 1960 the sit-ins worked, but today the problems are too complex to solve simply...
...another 1,100 also quit. Actually, technically, they die. That means that this business needs 3,000 fresh new volunteers every day. So forget about all of that cancer, heart disease, emphysema, stroke stuff! Gentlemen, we're not in this business for our health!" And with that, the businessmen erupt in gales of sinister laughter...
...Chicago turmoil, meanwhile, is far from over, and more trouble could erupt this week. Uno, a Hispanic group active in the principals controversy, is expected to pack a meeting of the board of education. Unquestionably, the highly charged atmosphere robs students and teachers of precious classroom time. But, for the moment at least, many Chicagoans take some comfort in the notion that parent-led councils, while imperfect, could not possibly make the city's beleaguered school system any worse. "All we've done now is empower people to make decisions that may or may not be right," says Professor Bakalis...