Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dazed Haitians looked back on Bloody Sunday's appalling carnage, they careened between shock and despair, terror and anger. For 22 months, most of the country's 6.3 million people had dared to hope for a brighter future, one that would heal the wounds inflicted by 28 years of corruption and brutality ; under the Duvalier dynasty. Last week they awoke to the realization that the three-member provisional government, seated to guide Haiti through its transition to democracy, had evidently sold out the people's dreams to protect the army's interests. As talk ranged from new elections and foreign...
...produced the hairy tube of "Crest" and waved it in fury, as the crowd gasped in shock. They all firmly denied any involvement, and two years later, after I was finally released from the mental hospital into which I was imprisoned for no good reason, I returned to school to finish my education...
Will the U.S. economy withstand the shock of the Black Monday stock-market crash, or will it slide into a prolonged recession? The answer will depend on the actions of consumers, companies, the President and Congress -- but perhaps most of all on the policies of the Federal Reserve Board. By controlling the nation's money supply, the Fed can willfully -- or often inadvertently -- speed up the economy or slow it down. Though the chairman and the six other Federal Reserve governors are appointed by the President, they become all- powerful financial gods once they get on the board, and their...
Clemson is the only town in the United Stateswhere the site of a six-foot tiger on the loosedoesn't shock anyone. And 400-pound men in orangeoveralls don't even elicit a second glance...
...least some skinheads, the neo-Nazi elements play a large role in life. The skinheads throw phrases like "white pride," "nationalistic segregation," and the "United Nationalist Army" around in conversation, but it's difficult to tell whether they are sincere or used for shock value...