Word: stung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution. Emmy Schaffer, a survivor of a World War II German concentration camp, spearheaded the initiative by organizing a band of housewives with the slogan: "In America, English first." The movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban refugees. Stung by the backlash, one Hispanic spokesman called the law "the most destructive thing that has ever happened to this community." Its impact, however, will mainly be on county road signs, tourist brochures and public notices. Bilingual education programs will not be affected...
Last spring, when the Consumer Price Index was leaping from peak to peak like a bee-stung mountain goat, economists, among others, looked to food prices for a little consolation. People at check-out counters may find it hard to believe, but the cost of food was then going up more slowly than the Consumer Price Index. In the first half of the year, when inflation briefly topped 18%, food prices grew at an annual rate of only...
...Nobody dared to break the ice. The Majlis wanted President Abolhassan Banisadr to write the letter. Already stung by his rivals, the President refused to comply. The buck went round again. The country matters more than a personal desire for vengeance. Thus I decided to shoulder the thankless task of resolving the hostage problem for them. I expressed my unqualified opposition to the idea of trying the U.S. hostages. Such trials, from any angle you look at them, are against our interest. Our main demand-the extradition of the criminal Shah to Iran -has become irrelevant. But obviously we cannot...
...successful post-Franco transition, has seemed increasingly bogged down by the intractable problems of 16% inflation, 10% unemployment and the stubborn wave of separatist terrorism. The partial autonomy recently granted to the provinces of Catalonia and the Basque country has similarly failed to diminish their regional resentment against Madrid. Stung by his setbacks, Suárez withdrew into his Moncloa Palace. Spaniards generally lost heart, wondering if democracy meant stagnation and fearing the alternatives of the political extremes...
Rocked by a Federal Trade Commission study last year that showed standardized tests were not necessarily measures of innate aptitude and stung by new state laws requiring disclosure of test answers, Educational Testing Services Inc. (ETS) spent this year absorbing still more punishment...