Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations...
The topsy-turvy Mexican market posted the world's fastest run-up during 1987, then began an even sharper tumble in early October of that year. In just 28 days, La Bolsa lost 74% of its value. The "crack," as Mexicans refer to it, wiped out tens of thousands of...
Compared with the uproar in Iran and the Indian subcontinent, most of the Muslim reaction in the Middle East was mild. Though a conference of theologians meeting in Mecca denounced Rushdie as a "heretic and renegade" and reportedly demanded he be tried in absentia in an Islamic country, others argued...
Of the $162 million the University currently has invested in LBOs, Sperling says "somewhere in the low tens of millions of dollars" of that money was in the KKR deal, which was finalized last month.
The emergency springs primarily from Central America. Since last June, 30,000 Nicaraguans fleeing war and economic misery have flocked to the U.S. That number could be dwarfed by the tens of thousands expected to arrive in the U.S. in 1989. As a result of Moscow's liberalized emigration policies...