Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some prominent bishops are at odds with shock tactics. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, O'Connor's predecessor as pro-life chairman, says that "the church can be most effective in the public debate on abortion through moral persuasion, not punitive measures." On the other hand, San Diego's Bishop Leo Maher denied Communion to a pro-choice Catholic who was running for the California senate...
...these places, the shock of seeing children fighting fades. It's like entering a darkened room: rather quickly the eyes adjust to a dimmer light. The mind grows accustomed to the sight of a little boy among the men, wearing the same uniform, carrying the same weapon, walking with the same tired swagger. It is from a distance that the reality of child soldiers appalls. Even people living close to the fighting find it easier to forget. Hamed Karzai, the urbane spokesman of the Afghan rebel government, spends most of his time mediating between rival mujahedin factions. Sipping...
...Fleck moved to Lexington, Ky., to help start a group called Spectrum. Exposure to bluegrass -- the real thing -- was a "big culture shock," he admits. "I was a little cocky, but down South, they didn't think I sounded so great because I lacked tone and I didn't have a great sense of rhythm. They were right." In 1981 Fleck moved to Nashville and joined the group that would be his musical home for the next eight years: the New Grass Revival, which played what Bela calls "high-tech bluegrass with a lot of heart and intensity; the singing...
...Freedman, management counselor for the Conference Board, a business research group. "It's uncontrollable. It's rather unsettling to foster creativity and might even be self-defeating for a manager. The job of management is to control." The adjustment isn't easy. "A lot of managers are in role shock. They're still fearful, apprehensive and unwilling to give up power," says Jack Grayson, chairman of the American Productivity and Quality Center...
...Mikhail Gorbachev prepares to embark on his latest plan to save the Soviet economy, he has expressly ruled out the shock therapy administered by Polish leaders last January when they abolished subsidies and price controls. By far the boldest approach to economic reform anywhere in Eastern Europe, Poland's policies have created hard times for many of the country's 40 million citizens. Unemployment, virtually unknown under the Communists, has climbed to 400,000. Rising prices and tight curbs on wages have sliced the purchasing power of some families as much as 40%. For the first time people can remember...