Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pairing seems about as likely as a business lunch between Author Germaine Greer and Pop Singer Tiffany: Ms., the feminist bible born of the political turmoil of the 1960s, and Sassy, the impudent primer for the latest generation of boy-crazy teenage girls. But Sassy Founder Sandra Yates and Ms. Editor Anne Summers are betting that the two magazines will be the foundation of a new media empire. Last week the two transplanted Australians signed a deal to buy Ms. and Sassy from their former employer, Australia's John Fairfax...
Duarte's "democracy" has presided over the slide of El Salvador into economic turmoil and all-out civil war. Duarte received hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. economic and military aid, supposedly to shore up the government economically and politically. This money successfully funded Duarte's bombing of the FMLN/FDR-held countryside, but failed miserably to bring any sort of economic stability to his country...
...appears that Vorenberg has finally reacted to the turmoil under his term and decided to return to his teaching and research. During Vorenberg's more than seven years as dean, the radical school of legal thought called Critical Legal Studies (CLS) has bitterly divided the law faculty. CLS challenges the objectivity of the law as it is practiced, claiming that the social and economic forces which constitute the true backbone of the law are dressed up by the institutional stature of the judiciary...
...advanced years have not brought the serenity he expected: "I reckoned that after 70 a person stops musing about all petty things. But the head does not know how old it is. It remains young and full of the same foolishness as at 20." The prospect of such protracted turmoil may not please everyone, but the news is conveyed in these vibrant stories with unforgettable, irresistible energy...
Campaign Manager Susan Estrich, 35, is likely to be part of any Administration. A former Harvard Law Review president and Supreme Court clerk who is on leave as a professor at the law school, Estrich took over the campaign during the turmoil after John Sasso's resignation. Another 35-year- old Harvard Law School professor, Christopher Edley, has done an outstanding job as the campaign's issues director. The top-ranking black on the Governor's team, Edley could wind up as chief domestic-policy adviser. Standing in the wings is Sasso, the mastermind of the campaign, who left after...