Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israelis struggled to disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak...
...express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing...
...waves of anxiety from Ohio's savings-and-loan panic started to calm down last week, members of the banking community desperately hoped for a respite from further turmoil. But they did not get it. Another bout of uneasiness hit the financial industry, this time inspired partly by the plight of Texas banks laden with bad loans in energy and real estate. Meanwhile, everyone from divorce lawyers to the FBI was busily looking for culprits in the failure of Home State Savings, the Cincinnati thrift whose sudden collapse last month touched off a minor financial panic. The scare forced Governor...
...with a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, the new nannies are valued for their specialized knowledge. At North American, for example, students learn toilet-training procedures from a pediatric nurse, diet planning for acne-prone adolescents from a nutritionist and how to deal with family turmoil from a counselor. Says Nanny Plan Student Marcie Mansell, 24, a former cosmetics-company beauty adviser: "We are professionals trained to know things baby-sitters...
...function although not by name, sued, ostensibly to recoup their reputations. In fact, the Times' daily circulation in Alabama was then some 400 copies, out of a total circulation of 650,000, and the suits were clearly intended to discourage the national news media from covering the turmoil in the South. In a unanimous 1964 ruling, the Supreme Court wrote of the paramount importance of "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" discussion, praised the unique role of the press in fostering free debate, and threw out an earlier state court verdict won by an Alabama plaintiff...