Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...layoffs, plus Wall Street's tortured gyrations, have driven consumer confidence to a 20-month low, according to the University of Michigan's closely watched survey. The farm sector is already in a recession, pushed there by falling commodity prices that have been deeply affected by the turmoil in Asia. This in turn has affected machinery producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer...
...love for my daughter--and a year of internal turmoil--brought me to PFLAG (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays). Educating myself through experience and through PFLAG has been the best thing that has happened to me in terms of coming to understand who my daughter and my nephew are. I believe, at this point, that being gay is not a choice. Why would somebody choose this lifestyle only to be persecuted...
...hardest decision I've ever had to make in my life," she says. "That summer, I had no intention of taking time off. I thought, `Yeah, I have just one year to finish up.' I was in such turmoil for a week, and literally the day we registered at Harvard, I went up and I withdrew...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...
...companies will bleed as long as demand at home and in Asia remains weak," says TIME senior business reporter Bernard Baumohl. And therein lies Japan's vicious cycle: The bursting of the country's banking and real estate bubble created a credit crunch throughout Asia, and the consequent financial turmoil shrank markets for Japanese products -- eating into the manufacturing sector that turned Japan into an economic superpower. The country's Nikkei stock index has been sliding all week due to the earnings reports and general jitters, and it dropped 2.2% more on Wednesday...