Word: shock
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...murder shocked Guatemala, but the shock has become familiar. According to the Commission for Human Rights in Central America, since 1965 about 38,000 Guatemalans have been slain in political violence or have disappeared. The past four weeks alone have seen nearly 100 killings, some at the hands of leftist guerrillas, the overwhelming majority by government security forces and right-wing death squads. The upsurge in violence comes as the country is beginning to prepare for November elections that are expected to bring to power Guatemala's first nonmilitary government in two decades. The elections are part of a campaign...
...second shock to the real estate industry was the decline of the condominium market. Until only about a year ago, the U.S. was crazy for condos. More than 2.5 million units opened in a decade. But that produced a vast excess of supply, notably in California, Texas and Florida. Speculators who had bought condos in the hope of fast price appreciation saw the shakeout coming and dumped even more of them on the market. At the same time, demand was dampened by the maturing of baby boomers, many of whom now aspire to move from condos to split-level suburban...
...investigative journalist reveals damning new evidence, Tyson is hauled before a court-martial on charges of mass murder. Is he guilty? Will a military tribunal be more vindictive than civilian justice? Can any circumstances mitigate an atrocity? Does a 17-year-old incident still have the power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson DeMille, who served as a lieutenant in Viet Nam, knows exactly how to employ his surge within us"), but the military scenes have the gunmetal ring of authenticity. This is The Caine Mutiny of the '80s, a long, over-the-shoulder look at a time that...
Needy girls who imagine that having a baby will fill the void in their lives are usually in for a rude shock. Hopes of escaping a dreary existence, of finding direction and purpose, generally sink in a sea of responsibility. With no one to watch the child, school becomes impossible, if not irrelevant. And despite the harsh lessons of experience, many remain careless or indifferent about birth control. About 15% of pregnant teens become pregnant again within one year; 30% do so within two years. "You ask, 'Why didn't you come in for the Pill?' and they...
...there was near unanimity about the virtue of the rescue mission itself. President Reagan somberly supported the decision to go in. So did the hijack survivors, including Pilot Hani Galal, who had told the tower at Valletta, "Please do something. They're going to kill us all." The same shock coupled with somber understanding had accompanied an anti-terrorist assault 17 days earlier in Bogotá, Colombia, where at least two dozen terrorists died, along with nearly 100 hostages...