Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of the turmoil was H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, once the crewcut, fiercely loyal chief of staff to President Nixon, now serving a minimum one-year term at California's Lompoc prison farm on a conviction of perjury in the Watergate coverup. Last May Haldeman had fumed as he watched his former chief imply in televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into...
...economy. During the past several years of hot debate and demonstrations over the fate of the canal, moneyed Panamanians and foreign investors have been reluctant to sink cash into the country. They are even less willing to do so now, fearing that Panama could be thrown into turmoil if the U.S. Senate fails to ratify the canal treaties. But if the treaties are adopted, Panamanians believe, investment, and their economy, will surge...
...peaceful village, the Olympics promise crowds and turmoil...
...response to racial turmoil in the late sixties, Harvard for the first time decided to include minority students in its concept of diversity. Until then, as Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, recalls, "Diversity at Harvard simply meant an all-white student body." Today, Harvard has a fairly active minority recruitment program, one that supplements the efforts of regular admissions staff members with those of alumni and students. This program reflects the understanding that recruiting minority students requires a different kind of effort from recruiting, say, football players, or students coming from a prep school background...
...world's most powerful economy has wound up with one of the world's weakest currencies. In part, the dollar's fall has been a price that the U.S. has paid for expanding its economy faster than have other industrial nations. More important, the dollar turmoil is a delayed effect of the quintupling of oil prices during...