Word: tumult
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...biographer has painted the tumult and suffering of Russia's past more vividly than Henri Troyat, whose previous subjects include Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Catherine the Great. A master of the purposeful anecdote, the graceful accretion of detail that helps explain motive and madness, Troyat finds the key to Ivan's character in the ruler's early life. The heir to the throne of Muscovy was orphaned at seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows...
...more than 2,500 years the only certainty in China has been uncertainty. Again and again the country has endured civil tumult, foreign invasion and the eternal vicious circle of flood, famine and disease. A century ago, the country was courting modernity and Western technology under the slogan "Chinese Learning for the Essence, Western Learning for the Application." Fifty years ago, Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government were encouraging economic growth, scientific advancement and managerial expertise. Both drives proved short-lived. In settling old scores, the present regime may have established new conflicts. In addition, its fondness for what...
Even more to the point, the administration of Derek Bok--the man who, more than anyone else, profited from the strike and the ensuing tumult that forced Pusey's retirement--has shown a familiar contempt for the views of students and junior faculty. When Bok and his Corporation seek to ignore the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility, when they refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of students' calls for a real hand in determining Harvard's investment policy, or when Bok and Dean Rosovsky smugly dismiss students' attempts to gain a real say in the formulation of their own curriculum...
Indeed almost everything has changed about the oil business since the case began in the tumult of the mid-1970s. Then, in the face of severe energy shortages during the vicious winter of 1976-77 and huge oil company profits, politicians called for crackdowns on oil companies and demanded that they be split...
...commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The high moment could not, however, erase the memory of a squalid scene the day before. New Right Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina had resurrected the old smear that King was a Communist sympathizer, setting off a shouting tumult in which other legislators broke Senate rules to impugn Helms' motives. Then, only hours after the Senate vote had seemingly put an end to the controversy, Ronald Reagan needlessly started it anew. At his Wednesday night news conference, the President defended Helms' "sincerity" even as he pledged...