Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opening Day, all the turmoil of the offseason is laid to rest. For just one day, Pete Rose is not a gambler, but the greatest hitter of the past. Wade Boggs is not an adulterer, but the greatest hitter of the present...
Even more important, as Moscow has recently discovered, the totalitarian solution cannot work indefinitely. Sooner or later the sacrifice of individuals standards of living leads to domestic problems: low work incentives, low labor productivity, economic stagnation and eventually, as events prove, domestic turmoil...
Building on Gorbachev's unilateral cuts, the CFE talks could further lessen the likelihood that the Kremlin's hordes will ever invade Western Europe. With that reassurance, American and allied statesmen can turn their attention to the much more immediate danger of political turmoil and military crisis inside Eastern Europe...
...good memoir should produce shocks of recognition that are both intimate and historical, revealing truths about a person and about his times. Bernstein provides both, in abundance. Juxtaposing excerpts from declassified FBI files with tales of a childhood thrown into turmoil by the early postwar Red scares, he has created a new genre -- what might be called the investigative memoir. It combines the journalistic thrill of Watergate with the emotional punch of that most basic of literary themes, a boy's search to understand his father...
Clark has pledged to be more moderate as dean, but faculty members believe he will still take an active role in the Law School's ideological battles. On the other hand, outgoing Dean James Vorenberg '49 was seen as a consensus builder, who appealed to Bok when the political turmoil threatened the school's uneasy truce...