Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vastly different drama was playing to a packed house. Some 4,000 Nicaraguans crowded into the modernistic Don Bosco Church as the new head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo: "Our relations...
...editorial's oversimplifications and misperceptions. The Crimson editorial of May 3 begins. "Race Relations has not been among the College's biggest successes over the past decade or so." The editorial staff seems to conveniently overlook the fact that Harvard is praised for its relatively good race relations. Minorities flock to Harvard because of its open environment which gives minorities an opportunity to fully participate in college life. We should commend the College for its diligent work of the past twenty years towards this goal...
...endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd's reed in the distance made his small flock of sheep and goats visible. The goats separated themselves from the sheep seemingly by following the sound of their own bells. But there wasn't even a small patch of green, and what the animals fed on couldn't be anything other than last summer's weeds, now dead...
After each bout of shelling, patients flock to their doctors complaining of stomach pains and headaches, symptoms of stress. Though in some neighborhoods canvas sheets have been hung across streets to block the view of snipers, only the brave venture out at night. Maurice Moyse, 82, proprietor of a French restaurant in West Beirut, shrugs as gunfire outside interrupts his recitation of the day's specials. "They are mad," he says. One wonders, though, who is really crazy: the snipers, Moyse or the reporter sitting by the window with only a gingham curtain between him and the unseen gunmen...
Mitterrand's troubles can be traced to the economic austerity program he launched in 1982. During his first year in office, the Socialist President nationalized a flock of industries and tried to spend the country out of recession, but a sagging franc and surging inflation persuaded Mitterrand to return to the more cautious policies of his conservative predecessor, Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Under the direction of Finance Minister Jacques Delors, the Socialist government experimented with wage and price controls, cut spending and instituted an ambitious "industrial restructuring" that could over the next four years lead to the layoff...