Word: mayhemic
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...friendly takeover, with Cedras in power or in exile, American troops were on their way in. Sweeping aside the Haitian army was the least difficult, least important part of their mission. Ahead loomed the far tougher job of imposing and keeping order in a country ripe for mayhem, then laying the ground for a self- sustaining democracy to take root in a land that for centuries has known + little but grinding poverty and bloody dictatorship...
...offenders of the '90s, Erik Menendez, at 19, of Beverly Hills, California, and Amy Fisher, at 17, of Merrick, Long Island, came from mostly white communities of nice houses. But it's in the inner cities where an interlocking universe of guns, gangs and the drug trade has made mayhem a career path for kids and equipped them with the means to do maximum damage along the way. Children ) involved in the drug trade get guns to defend themselves against older kids who want their money. For the ones still on a piggy-bank budget, the streets offer rent...
...America, according to a new report for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Although they make up only 7 percent of the country's population, they are involved in 17 percent of all car accidents. Males were more likely to be reckless than females. How to prevent the mayhem, according to the CDC? A graduated licensing system has been recommended in order to allow new drivers more supervised driving time before they are granted the full privileges of a driver's license...
Then BLAM!, the Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over...
...Relief workers are astonished by the cohesion and sense of community they see around them. In some cases whole villages moved together and reassembled themselves in the camps; the elders ration food supplies; some priests are presiding over congregations 1,000 strong. For those who have been witness to mayhem throughout the past four years of civil war, there were even words of relief. Compared with the life he had left behind, one refugee told a reporter from ABC, "here we are tasting the good life." At least here, he explained, no one was being killed...