Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration says that the Organization of American States embargo has driven Haitians to desperation, but few refugees agree. In any case, they have been coming since September, before it could have had any effect. They have been fleeing ever since the political situation at home became the daily terror the United States has condoned in Haiti...
...news about the dangers of silicone implants may have struck terror into the hearts of thousands of women, but for many trial lawyers it represents a bonanza. More than 1,000 implant-related lawsuits have already been filed by women who claim they were disfigured or debilitated by the devices. And the revelation that manufacturers may have knowingly buried facts about the dangers is causing the numbers to skyrocket. Some attorneys have even set up toll-free numbers to handle -- and encourage -- the surge...
...downfall spread, thousands of the ousted leader's supporters gathered at the capital's train station for a march through the city. For the second time since the conflict began, gunmen tossed smoke bombs and opened fire on the crowd, scattering the demonstrators. Ioseliani defended the use of terror to enforce a state of emergency in Tbilisi, but it has not lessened the danger of civil war breaking out in other parts of Georgia, especially in the western regions, where armed Gamsakhurdia supporters have already challenged the new regime. The coup leaders also face difficulties with the republic's restive...
...idea. He realized that the chemical reaction between intimidation and sycophancy could not fuel a modern society or allow even a so-called superpower to enter the 21st century as anything other than a basket case. Gorbachev has allowed the beginnings of real politics to take the place of terror, and the concept of real economics to replace the institutionalized inefficiency of central planning and massive subsidization...
Behind Vatican II's reconsideration of the Virgin and some of the uneasiness expressed over her populist revival, say feminists, is a concern over making Mary into a competitive divinity, a tradition common to many of the pagan religions that Christianity superseded. Remarks Warner: "The great terror is that she will be worshipped above...