Word: tumult
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Despite these advances and the most recent gains in University relations, PBHA members say they are worried about what effect the year's tumult will have on the organization's ability to launch a major fundraising drive for its 100th anniversary in the year 2000 as it attempts to make itself financially independent...
...National Front party's surprising 15 percent returns in last Sunday's first round of elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With its blame-the-immigrants economics, the Front has all but cornered France...
...pressure on prosecutors to win a conviction could not be greater. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 83% of the public believes McVeigh is guilty, so if the jury acquits him, the prosecutors, led by Joseph Hartzler, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney from Illinois, will face a tumult of outrage. Last week their burden appeared to become even heavier when the Justice Department released a damning report on the FBI forensics lab. The report specifically criticized work done in the Oklahoma bombing case, saying that investigators had drawn unjustifiable conclusions and failed to follow proper procedures. Potential jurors may have...
...more immune to changing fashions than any other form of entertainment. Novels that reflect only the glittering moment usually turn out to be artifacts, not art. Another reason is that literary fiction of the past two decades, good at dramatizing personal crises, has rarely attempted to engage the tumult of the wider world. Social disorder is handled more efficiently in nonfiction, journalism or seductively moving images. Who needs to plow through an imaginative verbal construct when the content is available in more accessible forms...
...communications, because it had the misfortune of having accepted me, because I wouldn't mind sending my own daughters there and because the forces that drove up Penn's costs are fundamentally the same as those at every other major university. My journey--taken at a time of great tumult in higher education, with many schools at last responding to pressure to slow tuition growth--led me to a discovery: real-cost increases do explain some of the run-up in tuition over the past 20 years...