Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near-revolution is equally ill-defined. The reggae music that throbs with such intimidation from the city stops, and the rioting begins. If whites perceived a direct threat in that music, that threat is not fulfilled. This "revolution" is merely turmoil in which everybody is at once a guerrilla and a leader. And its only direct effect is the death of a woman who never figured in imperialism or revolution, but who is transformed, or "chewed up," as the whites say, first into the "rotten meat" of miscegenation, then the "bloody meat" of retribution. But if revolutionaries are depraved charlatans...
...turmoil overseas and in Washington is endangering Lockheed's survival?with important consequences for the economies of California and Georgia, where Lockheed is a major employer, and the national defense, since Lockheed is the nation's No. 1 defense contractor. The giant company (estimated 1975 sales: $3.25 billion) was saved from bankruptcy in 1971 by the Government's guarantee to repay $250 million in private bank loans. But the General Accounting Office, which conducts audits for Congress, has expressed doubt that Lockheed can repay the loans on schedule by 1978?and the Government is unlikely to extend the guarantee. Burns...
Soaring population and the first real depression in the island's modern history have compounded the social stresses of breakneck industrialization. Pro-independence leftists are attempting to exploit the turmoil both on the island and abroad. TIME Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett visited Puerto Rico to learn how its people and politicians are coping. His report...
...recent turmoil, which has shaken the very foundations of the financially troubled school, may not end with the Parkers' resignation...
...purpose of this course," I said on opening night, "isn't to 'teach' you academic sociology. Our society is in turmoil--some would say falling apart--and yet most sociologists seem to be trying to keep abreast of the action as if they were referees in a fast sport. History doesn't have any referees; everyone is a player. It doesn't have fixed rules, so Nixon's football analogies don't really hold. You have to learn to call the shots for yourselves. Social scientists may help, but ultimately they can't do it for you. There's already...