Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laying legal claim to some areas that are heavily populated or commercially valuable or both, they have irritated and angered innumerable citizens-many of whom know that whatever the Indian grievance, it cannot be pinned on their late-arriving forefathers. Some Indian claims have created uneasiness and even turmoil in entire towns, paralyzing the real estate business, delaying bond issues, thwarting commercial and housing construction and beclouding future planning. At first the claims aroused amusement; now they are taken seriously. This was dramatized last week when the White House was the site for a conference called to introduce the President...
...heroes will be hard at work to save the world from the dangers of extremism, and at the same time to put in a good word for Mom, the Flag and Apple Pie (or its Middle Eastern equivalent). In fact, these paragons are so hard-pressed by all this turmoil that one wonders if they ever have time to think about what they are doing. But then again, they should not have to think: the high school civics textbook from which Drury has drawn his inspiration for all these years must certainly have the answers...
President Idi Amin Dada was behaving true to bizarre form. First he provoked an international crisis, thereby distracting world attention from the murder and turmoil taking place within Uganda (TIME cover, March 7). Then he quietly backed down...
...dependents." Ginsburg encourages her students to join in preparing her cases. Such experience, she hopes, will help young lawyers pursue what Ginsburg sees as one goal of the law: "To reflect and respond to the needs of the society it serves, preserving freedom while preventing turmoil...
Scent of Conciliation. Vance found a turmoil of a different and more embarrassing sort in Jordan. Just as the Secretary arrived, the kingdom was rocked by reports from Washington that King Hussein has been receiving payments from the CIA for the past two decades. Vance refused to comment on the matter, but it clearly cast a pall on his talks with one of America's oldest and most reliable friends in the Middle East...