Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always there were multiple pressures that erupted into the Miami race riot -by far the worst since 43 people were killed (mostly black rioters shot by police) in a week of looting and burning in Detroit in 1967. High unemployment, the ruinous impact of inflation, resentment at all the public help given the still rising tide of refugees inundating southern Florida from Cuba-all fed the fury of the Miami area's 233,000 blacks. Yet perhaps more clearly than in any other recent race conflict, the rage in Miami focused on police, prosecutors and the courts. And when...
Mugabe's goals will be especially hard to achieve in the wake of a ruinous war. The country is virtually bankrupt and in debt to white-ruled South Africa for $350 million. The war turned nearly 850,000 into homeless refugees, many of whom live in the rubber-tent slums of urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally...
...Under ground Leader Bernardino Dohrn, has become something of a cult role model for the dwindled, sullen ranks of the New Left. Nor have Marshall's Seattle Eight co-defendants lapsed into torpor suburbanus. One was jailed only two years ago for conspiracy, another died after years of ruinous drug taking and late nights, and the others tend to espouse leftist causes that range in tone from Jane Fonda chic to Hanoi histrionics...
Carter vs. Reagan. A President who has presided over a series of foreign policy calamities and a ruinous inflation, challenged by an aging actor who is widely viewed as a simplistic right-wing ideologue. The choice disturbs 58% of the voters polled for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, who wish there were an acceptable alternative. And it also bothers many foreign observers, including diplomats who will have to deal with the eventual winner...