Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge bankruptcy filing drove down bank stocks Friday and sent shock waves through world financial markets. Citibank, Olympia & York's largest U.S. creditor, said it has written off $100 million of the $480 million it had loaned to the Canadian company. Such losses could grow in the U.S. and abroad if Olympia & York cannot climb out of the deepening financial hole it has dug for itself...
...woman suffering from rape trauma syndrome who is raped again is likely to experience "freezing" to reenter a state of shock or to be rendered incapable of any action. Given the sizable number of women who are raped multiple times in their lives, this scenorio is also fairly common...
...avenues of appeal. Barring a last-minute federal court intervention or a grant of clemency by Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, Coleman, now 33, will be executed on May 20 by a high-voltage wave of electricity that will wipe out his nervous system, followed by a low-voltage shock designed to finish the job. It is a prospect that Coleman says leaves him "anxious, of course...
...many blacks said bitterly they had always thought the cops would be turned loose. Lester Barry, the black emcee of the "Comedy 'n the Hood" show at the Guild Theatre in Inglewood, had even been saying in his act that "those guys are going to get off." But the shock and rage after the verdict belied those statements. This time, many blacks apparently hoped, it would be different. After all, this was not merely the word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard evidence in the form...
Clark did not take the initiative to hold town meetings, speak with the authors of the parody or even address the Law Review. In short, he did little to alleviate the pain and shock the Law School community was feeling after the publication of the article...