Word: tumult
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...Hadden and Henry Luce, who founded TIME, were the fathers of the newsmagazine, Oz was the person who showed that the format could be a place for great, campaigning journalism, giving it a new relevance as America's post-1945 golden age gave way to the social and political tumult of the 1960s. In 1963, with a special issue titled "The Negro in America" - one of the handful of truly revolutionary pieces of American journalism - Oz made Newsweek a force to be reckoned with and demonstrated that great journalism could help shape a national agenda. But he wasn...
...variety of factors are speeding a shakeout. They include falling oil prices and Russia's war with Georgia, which spooked foreign investors and sparked capital flight. Of course, the tumult on Wall Street and the general seizing up of global finance has caused a liquidity squeeze for banks worldwide. But the root cause of Russia's current crisis is homegrown: wannabe oligarchs who used debt to continue doubling down while the going was good, only to find themselves on shaky ground now that the market has turned. As one wag said this month, it's a case of minigarchs turning...
...Written with a soaring yet impeccably balanced lyricism, Roy's prose does not hit a single wrong note. Here, for example, is the stasis at the very heart of the tumult that is love: "The rushes had stopped nodding, the breeze had stopped blowing through our hair, the stream had stopped flowing, the curdled clouds had stopped drifting overhead, the bird had stopped its call, the two children on the opposite bank had frozen in mid-gesture...
...spoke with Alwaleed in Riyadh on Tuesday, as the world reeled from the shock of the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy. In his offices on the 66th floor of the iconic Kingdom Tower, the prince (a nephew of King Abdullah) seems a world away from the tumult in New York City. But a giant TV screen in his office was tuned to CNBC, and he conceded that his personal worth may have taken a hit with the stocks slide, though he stressed that he was doing well with investments closer to home...
...says Donavanik, does the verdict bode well for the political tumult that has been rocking Thailand in recent months. Since Thaksin's ouster two years ago, Thailand has become deeply divided between supporters and opponents of the former PM; last week, dozens of anti-Thaksin protestors were injured when antagonisms between the two groups turned violent at two provincial rallies...