Word: post-war
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...didn’t care that they had no statutory authority under an existing legal framework to prosecute these cases. Rather, they invented a court and prosecutors, created rules for it to follow, and gave it powers (based on their military strength, whether it be as military conquerors in post-war Germany or as the collective will of NATO or the Security Council...
...rape in war often permanently alters the affected community. Bloom explained that areas targeted with the tactic often experience a 500 percent increase in post-war calls to rape crisis centers—pointing to lasting domestic ramifications...
...This pessimism may be too murky. Japan changes more by revolution than evolution. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 catapulted Japan into the industrial age in the blink of a historian's eye, as did the post-war economic "miracle"?a word employed by Western commentators who failed to see rapid growth coming. It may be that the demographic and financial meltdowns Japan faces will trigger another volcanic transition, and soon. It may be that this change will promote meritocracy, protect the environment, modernize the economy, strangle the Yakuza, muzzle corruption and, crucially for my family's future, usher...
...School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949, a hugely popular model that saved the company from post-war extinction...
...display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949 that actually saved the company from post-war extinction...