Word: turmoils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twenty-five years ago, in Selma, Ala., club-wielding police attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Now the city of 27,000 is again experiencing racial turmoil. Last week 150 black high school students boycotted classes to protest the school board's failure to renew the contract of black Superintendent Norward Roussell. Governor Guy Hunt ordered National Guardsmen to protect students who went to school despite the boycott...
...seems little affected by the much publicized turmoil that has plagued the Roseanne set. While Barr has staged tantrums, battled with producers and talked about quitting, Goodman has been a stabilizing force through his sheer professionalism. "I just don't involve myself," he says. "Roseanne is committed to doing a quality show on her own terms, and she's got her terms. I'm an actor and a reactor. I do what they set down in front...
Egypt has its pyramids, Rome its Colosseum. Iran has its attractions too, notably its Persian ruins, but few tourists have seen them in recent years because of turmoil within the country. Now, hungry for foreign currency to help rebuild its war-ravaged economy, Iran aims to develop a tourism industry. This year the country hopes to welcome 300,000 visitors who will bring in more than $200 million...
Beaty found the N.R.A. members to be "a lot of honest, decent and mostly rational people caught in a turmoil over a thorny, difficult social problem. That's exactly the kind of people who are working the other side of the street." Both sides will have a further opportunity to debate the topic on Wednesday evening, Jan. 24, when Peter Jennings moderates an ABC News-TIME forum on guns...
...Bulgarian turmoil is a classic of ethnic politics. Zhivkov tried to solve the minority problem by denying the Turks a separate existence and forcing them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...