Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opposition politicians in Nigeria, expressing shock at the killings, suggested the government may have played a role in the shootings...
After getting over the initial shock, Girotto said he was thankful for the opportunity and felt that running with the torch was a terrific way for him to still participate in the games...
...shock treatment of the field trips is just one of many innovative therapies that Clark, a Ph.D. in education, has brought to his school. Bowling Park is where the rhetoric of "standing for children" moves beyond talk. If children are to be rescued, the reasoning goes, who is better equipped to do so than the elementary school, a solid institution already in the business? Yet to rescue children, one must start early--even before birth. And to rescue children, whole families must be rescued along with them--hence the transformation of the neighborhood school into a "caring community...
...Russia today "freedom shock," to use Guzman's term, is explained succinctly by Roman, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University...
...other low-cost carriers are already feeling the shock waves. Mark McDonald, president and CEO of Nations Air Express, a 15-month-old start-up based in Smyrna, Georgia, says the ValuJet crash has had "a tremendous impact" on his business. "Our bookings have been dropping about 40% a day [since the crash]," he says. "There is a lot of concern out there, and it's not getting any better." Jordan, who last week appointed retired Air Force General James B. Davis as ValuJet's new "safety czar," remains convinced, though, that his company--and passengers--can again fly high...