Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compare your economic reform to the October Revolution. The revolution came as a great shock to your society...
...This will be a shock. But not a Polish...
...have given careful thought about which way to go. One alternative was shock therapy. Instead we have decided to proceed radically, but on the basis of the special characteristics of our economy. Most Western economists believe we're doing the right thing. We can't just follow someone else's model automatically. There was a time when we tried to impose our model on others. It would be a disaster if we just borrowed blindly another country's model. That's why we think we should take a radical path but without shocks...
...spite of crisis and chaos in the emergency rooms, the photographers had only praise for the doctors and nurses working there. "They are incredibly cool and professional," says Kenneth Jarecke, who took his cameras to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore...
...hard-core right-wing areas like Welkom and rural Transvaal, whites have reacted with shock, anger and fear to De Klerk's reforms. Just last week the government opened segregated public hospitals to all races, a further erosion of the crumbling laws of separation. Changes like these have prompted die-hard whites to organize a militant defense against what they see as a threatened black -- and communist -- takeover of the country...