Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formidable. To create a high-tech giant that could challenge IBM, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal welded computer also-rans Burroughs and Sperry in 1986 to create Unisys Corp. But after a fast start, Unisys has suffered from lagging technology and sagging military spending. With the company in turmoil, Blumenthal, 64, retired as chairman last week to concentrate on his role as a partner in the Lazard Freres investment-banking firm. He had stepped down as chief executive when he joined Lazard last April...
...America's inner-cities. In the face of rampant crime, drug use and teen pregnancy, many Black leaders simply turn up the rhetoric and make excuses for these social diseases and--most recently--for Marion Barry. In doing so, they seem intent upon driving the Black underclass into further turmoil...
...Saudi Arabia and the current Gulf crisis in general, these differences are magnified by the large cultural gaps that exist between our two regions. Our policy in the Gulf must be especially sensitive to these differences--differences that are at the root of the political turmoil...
...What role has real estate investment played in the financial turmoil of the 1980s...
...work, the first of five planned volumes about life -- mostly political life -- in ancient Rome. Robert Graves covered this ground, in I, Claudius, and so did Shakespeare, for that matter. McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, is not awed, and her narration marches sturdily through a period of fascinating turmoil in the last years of the Republic. Terrifying German barbarians have wiped out most of Rome's legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy but not the bloodline to save the situation. The author is interested in everything: how the city...