Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheik had plenty of companions in misery as shock waves from the B.C.C.I. shutdown rippled across the globe. Authorities seized more than 75% of the bank's $20 billion of assets in 69 countries. Customers from Bahrain to Beijing suddenly found themselves cut off from their funds. Political sniping broke out in Britain when members of the opposition Labour Party attacked regulators for hastily closing 25 branches of B.C.C.I. across the country. Panama pleaded with the Bank of England to return $18 million of government funds that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega had squirreled away in B.C.C.I. accounts in Britain...
...proved quite wrong. It had been widely forecast that the embargo would provoke a laager (circling the wagons) mentality among whites, a nose-thumbing determination to defy world opinion. That happened in Rhodesia in the late 1960s, but exactly the opposite seems to have occurred in South Africa: the | shock of finding themselves moral outcasts stung many of the nation's whites so deeply that they went along with a faster and more thorough dismantling of apartheid than they might have countenanced otherwise. "It was the feeling that the country had become a global pariah rather than the economic pressures...
...know whether a shock every now and then is what is needed. We also need Europe to act. We need people who have access to every party to this conflict. We are ready, willing and hopeful. We believe in a comprehensive settlement. It can't be just between Jordan and Israel, and Jordan cannot be Palestine...
...political life, Tsongas, now 50, has taken people by surprise. He is an odd politician. On the surface he is almost mushy. He rarely loses his temper or even raises his voice. So it is something of a shock to discover that underneath, Tsongas (pronounced song-us) is highly opinionated and hard as nails. What you see is not what...
...years later, he flabbergasted the ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action by telling the organization its brand of liberalism was dead. In 1984 he suddenly walked away from the Senate. He wanted to be home with his family while undergoing cancer treatment. Two months ago, Tsongas sprang yet another shock. Out of the blue, he became the first -- and so far only -- Democrat to declare for President. Right in character, he announced his candidacy at the height of George Bush's popularity...