Word: quelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks, an excruciating lag for low-income taxpayers counting on their refund to fix the car or pay the rent. Some such workers, accustomed to quick refunds, have taken out their frustrations on storefront tax preparers like Jesse Ivy of Chicago, who twice has called police to quell near riots. Says Kevin Crosby, who received death threats from a client: "Until now, I never thought of tax filing as being a high-risk business...
...riots exploded in cities across America, culminating in the violence following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. The Kerner Commission, appointed to discover the roots of these riots, concluded that the government had to implement nothing less than extraordinary measures to improve the lot and quell the growing resentment of Blacks. The reported warned of "the feelings of desperation and anger which breed civil disorders...
...officers--perhaps as many as 1 in 5--who had served in Afghanistan and learned how to fight a guerrilla war. Surely these veterans, the so-called Afghantsy, many now commanding the Grozny operation, had not forgotten everything they learned? After spending two weeks with the units sent to quell Chechnya, however, I no longer have any illusions...
...Banco Latino closure sparked runs on other banks. In an effort to quell the panic, the government pumped $3 billion into eight troubled financial institutions--a policy that many analysts believe helped expand the crisis. In June 1994 all the subsidized banks were declared insolvent and closed down; none reopened. Some of the rescue money was used to pay off depositors, whose savings accounts were insured up to $23,000, but much of it simply disappeared. William Davila, vice president of Venezuela's Senate finance committee, charges that bank managers loaned themselves the money and shipped it to overseas accounts...
...draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united Ireland. In an attempt to quell loyalist protests, Major made a nationally televised address, in which he re-emphasized that the document would be merely a starting point for talks and again confirmed that any agreement reached would be submitted to a referendum...