Word: turmoils
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Morgan Park is one of a handful of schools that have been shaken by turmoil in recent weeks after principals were ousted by local councils. The dismissals were the first big test of a revolutionary decentralization scheme launched last fall by the city of Chicago. Under the plan, locally elected councils -- composed of six parents, two community residents, two teachers and an ex- officio member, the principal -- were put in charge of each of Chicago's 541 public schools. The aim was to shift authority from the city's bloated board of education to local neighborhoods. But giving parents...
Asked if he would quit, Avril responded, "If I step down hurriedly, it will create a lot of turmoil." On Saturday, Avril stepped down. His temporary replacement, Major General Herard Abraham, is scheduled to hand over power to a Supreme Court member this week...
Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, the nation's most successful program for runaway teenagers, hoped that by resigning he would end the controversy that has engulfed the organization since four young men accused him of sexual misconduct. Instead, the turmoil mounted. The state attorney general has widened an investigation to include personal loans that Ritter and other Covenant House officials obtained from the organization, possibly in violation of state...
...waning months of Duarte's administration were beset by political turmoil. In March 1988 Duarte's bitter political rivals, the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), won control of the national legislature. Duarte's attempts to heal a deepening rift within his Christian Democratic Party failed, and one year later ARENA's presidential candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, triumphed, with 54% of the vote...
...presented clearly the immediate triggers of the recent violence. In the Soviet Union, Azerbaijanis and Armenians have lived in peace and harmony for a long time, just as they still do in neighboring Iran. Why the sudden violence? How exactly did the "ethnic conflict" turn into "separatist turmoil...