Word: maelstrom
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...comments--by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffery Wolcowitz--created a maelstrom of controversy. Posters around campus--including some saying "Attack Jewett"--accused the two of blaming women for the incidents; student groups from the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to The Crimson called for vast changes in how acquaintance rape cases are handled by the College...
...kinder, gentler" nation, improved education, a war on drugs, the greatest military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush's nationally televised paean to the homely virtues of a balanced checkbook might have carried a lot more weight in both the country and in Congress had he not won office two years...
...multiracial future for his country, with full respect for the rights of the white minority. He promised potential investors that their ventures would be welcome in a South Africa in which everyone, regardless of race, had the vote. Nonetheless, some of his remarks inevitably drew him into the maelstrom of U.S. politics...
...financial institution, it can be moved with blinding speed. Communicating with the bank via fax machine or personal computer, a launderer can have wire transfers sent around the world without ever speaking to a banking officer. The goal of many launderers is to get their money into the maelstrom of global money movements, where the volume is so great that no regulators can really monitor it all. Such traffic has exploded because of the globalization of the world economy, which has multiplied the volume of international trade and currency trading. On an average working day, the Manhattan-based Clearing House...
Suddenly I had a very vivid sense of how terrifying it would be to live in El Salvador, how terrifying it would be not to know when your fellow academics might disappear into a maelstrom of political violence. I also had the sense that the COCA's were having a hell of a time waving around guns and scaring the hell out of people. Many students who joined the Red Guard or Hitler's Brown Shirts had the same pleasures. But it seemed like a good cause...