Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that has claimed 70,000 lives in eight years shows no sign of winding down. A much heralded campaign to revive the economy has foundered. Even the President's most striking accomplishment, the sharp reduction in killings by right-wing Salvadoran death squads, has been compromised by a recent spate of murders of peasants who were linked to the guerrillas. As a result, Salvadorans are displaying growing impatience with the U.S.-supported Duarte...
...civil war that had claimed 6,000 lives since 1983 and threatened to tear Sri Lanka apart along ethnic lines. The 12 million Sinhalese, however, were enraged at the agreement, which grants local rule to two northern and eastern provinces heavily populated by Tamils. After an initial spate of rioting, the Sinhalese calmed down. But how long will the uneasy peace last...
...massacres touched off a spate of Hindu violence that left at least ten people dead and many others injured. A general strike organized by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and other opposition parties effectively shut down New Delhi and about 25 other cities. In a written statement, the - B.J.P. denounced Gandhi's government for what it described as a hollow promise to control terrorism...
While some Harvard Square residents and merchants have praised the University in the past for purchasing property in order to keep big real estate developers from destroying the area's smallscale charm, others regard Harvard's recent spate of purchases with apprehension...
...have attended," Treasury Secretary James Baker helped to win endorsement of an ambitious plan to control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...