Word: traumas
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...continued activity of the Islamic terrorist network. In the turbulent years after 9/11, new powers arose to challenge American might. Iran--thanks to raw demography, the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq and advances in its nuclear program--emerged as the dominant power in the Middle East. Despite the trauma of financial crisis and depression, China became the new hegemon of East Asia. And Russia used its oil riches and nuclear leverage to restore its dominance over Eastern Europe, rolling back the frontier of the European Union. Although all adopted the outward forms of democracy, none of those three powers...
...extent to which the trauma of 9/11 is seared into the contemporary American consciousness is a clear from the fact that 98% of respondents recall their whereabouts when they first heard news of the attacks. Almost one in five indicated that they still think about the attacks every day, while a further 68% think about the events of 9/11 at least a few times a month...
...woman, was alone with my new patient. She was, in fact, single-handedly moving him back off the X-ray table onto his stretcher. The films were up. They showed what you would expect; a shin bone smashed to splinters. The formica top of the X-ray table had trauma debris all over it - bits of asphalt, dirt and, of course, blood, with scraps of that useless white roll paper they put on exam tables. I stabilized the leg while she slid him over. The door opened, the cops saw the situation and flooded in. They helped roll him back...
...that would create a different problem. People would start wondering, once again, what the deal is with that marriage. More than eight years after the country lived through the trauma of seeing a marital crisis turn into a constitutional one, the state of the Clintons' union continues to fascinate people. A comedian can rarely mention either of them without a dig at their private life. A tally of how much they see each other (14 days a month on average since the beginning of 2005) merited front-page treatment by the New York Times. Even the unveiling in April...
...attacked. Digging in would require the establishment of supply lines and logistical support, and offer Hizballah just the sort of sitting-duck Israeli targets on which it thrived during Israel's two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel lost around 2,000 men in Lebanon over that period - a trauma that can only be understood in proportion to the total population size, i.e., as the equivalent of the U.S. losing 100,000 of its own troops. It has no intention of returning to that particular status quo ante...