Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increased in sales 30% during each of the past three years. This year Birkenstock Footprint Sandals expects a 40% increase, to about 1.4 million pairs. They are still made with layers of suede, jute and cork, with the sole contoured to the natural shape of the foot and a shock-absorbent foot bed. Prices range from $50 to $130 for adult sizes...
...Medicaid payments to Massachusetts will total $489 million, enough to erase the state's entire budget deficit -- with $39 million to spare. Governor William Weld plans to award Betts $10,000, which she will save for the education of her two children. "I'm still in a state of shock," said Betts, 38. Weld also proposed an incentive-award program for state workers...
Since 1985 almost 50 Ethiopians have committed suicide, depressed by both family separations and culture shock. The Ethiopians' ingrained reluctance to complain may also be to blame. Says Samuel: "They hold everything inside, sitting and brooding, until one day they explode." Israeli officials say slightly higher suicide rates are endemic among new immigrants worldwide and expect the problem to decline now that most families have been reunited. Says Louis Rapoport, author of two books on the Ethiopian Jews: "You can always find some bitter cases but I think most of them have integrated extremely well...
...liner, Gromov served as the Soviet commander in Afghanistan before becoming Deputy Interior Minister in December. But even if Rutskoi does win votes from enlisted men and reform-minded Communists, Ryzhkov has earned the support of the military-industrial complex and the party bureaucracy through his attacks on economic "shock therapy" and his defense of the country's "socialist choice." Because Ryzhkov and Gromov are counting so much on local party machines and military discipline to secure votes, they have been accused in the press of waging a campaign of "limousines with flashing lights and gleaming generals' stars...
Gallagher has gained a reputation as being adamently "anti-P.C.," something that has occasionally been apparent in his debates at the UC, and he heartily embraces the characterization. "Colin strikes me as a contrarian who's out to shock," James M. Harmon '93 says...