Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was asking too much. As the significance of the day's events sank in, tens of thousands of people in Port-au-Prince chanted jubilantly, "He flew away; he flew away!" Others proclaimed, "Vive America!" and waved the Stars and Stripes, as well as banners of red and blue...
...high-debt, industrializing oil producers, led by Mexico, which has a foreign debt of $96.4 billion. Last week Mexico slashed its crude-oil prices by an average of $4 per bbl. The move, which will cost the country close to $2.2 billion in revenues this year, comes at a tense moment. Earlier in the week in Mexico City, tens of thousands of workers and students marched through the center of a capital still marred by last September's disastrous earthquake to protest the belt-tightening economic policies of the De la Madrid government. The demonstrators demanded a moratorium on payments...
Never in the long and turbulent history of the Philippines has there been an election campaign quite like it. In the muddy streets and squares of provincial cities and villages on the island of Mindanao last week, tens of thousands of farmers and plantation workers waited for a glimpse of...
Few of his countrymen would argue with that assessment. The mood in Manila, thick with political tension ever since Marcos issued his surprise election call, grew even more claustrophobic last week with the latest campaign soundings. The rumor mills that grind endlessly in the city's crowded coffeehouses increased their...
With further research, Rosenberg hopes to find a way around these difficulties and to make the technique less complicated and less costly. At present, the treatment calls for four to five weeks of hospitalization, a squadron of technicians for each patient and specialized lab facilities, all of which add up...