Word: tumults
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...Such a tumult would ravage the country physically and almost certainly kill tens of thousands, dwarfing in duration and bloodshed the bushwar in Zimbabwe. Besides, the stakes are much larger in the wealthier South Africa, for the Afrikaners, knowing they have nowhere else to go if the Blacks were to prevail in a civil war, would fight to a bitter end. Very rarely is violence the best means of resolving conflict; a revolution to bring about immediate majority rule might be the worst...
...Brian Jones slowly loses the fierce beauty of his youth, transformed by heroin and fear into a corpse-like tag-along, who by the end can barely keep time with a pair of maracas. More cheerfully, Charlie Watts maintains through all the years his proud, patient detachment from the tumult created by his mates. He sits, smiling behind his humble drum kit, clearly amazed that he, or any other grown man, can do this sort of thing for a living. In contrast, Richards gradually develops into the outlaw rocker he always knew he was, even when he kept his hair...
...Cabinet last week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cast aside dissenters from her strict monetarist economic policies and replaced them with unstinting loyalists to her stern anti-inflation credo. The action further split her already deeply divided Tory party and set the stage for a political season of unrivaled tumult and upheaval...
...protests and the student strikes presented more serious questions about Harvard's image. Formally employed at the time as a Radcliffe PR person. Lord participated in an urgent drive to present Harvard's case to alumni and the media. The Gazette. Harvard's official weekly, was founded amid the tumult as an alternative to the student press, which was seen as radical. Today, 11 years after she assumed the helm of the main news office. Lord still sympathizes with those young people who lashed out at authority while Washington pursued the most unpopular war in the nation's history...
...Tumult in the diamond market has come as a real surprise. Oppenheimer's De Beers group supplies about 85% of the world's rough diamonds, and is by a wide margin the most influential member of the London-based Central Selling Organization, an international price-fixing cartel of diamond producers. In spite of the cartel's efforts to stabilize the market, diamond prices have fallen because of excessive speculation combined with a slack in demand...