Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carpenter-McMillan is the source of the Jones team turmoil. After a three-year friendship with Jones, she decided the attorneys weren't doing enough to counter damaging publicity about Jones. "Joe [Cammarata] didn't want to say anything, and that's why I got involved," she says. Opponents say Jones has been body-snatched by the Clinton bashers. "This thing was political from the beginning, and now it's gotten more political," says James Carville, Clinton's former campaign manager and Jones' fiercest public critic...
...hamstrung by outmoded management. Though the factories employ 110 million workers, they can barely pay them, and while these businesses soak up 90% of loans from state banks, they account for only a third of China's total industrial output. But Beijing has always been afraid of the social turmoil that could be unleashed if millions of those workers were dismissed...
...forces--high crime, low test scores, family breakdown, joblessness, poverty--worsen for black communities in the years after 1970? The book suggests it was ugly black rhetoric, ensuing white anger and the failures of affirmative action that accelerated pathologies in black communities--not the rise of drug use, or turmoil over the Vietnam War, or changing sexual mores, or a general cynicism about authority, which affected society in general. Can we be definitive about what went wrong here? "Nobody knows the answer," Abigail told TIME...
...there is an additional aspect to the Mormons' spectacular industry and frugality. Their faith, like several varieties of American Protestantism, holds that Jesus will return to earth and begin a thousand-year rule, this glory preceded by a period of turmoil and chaos. During the dark years, church members understand that it is their destiny to sustain a light to help usher in the kingdom to come. In their preparations to do so, they shame even the most avid of secular survivalists. Church members are advised to keep one year's food and other supplies on hand at all times...
DIED. ROBERT WEAVER, 89, the first African American appointed to the Cabinet; in New York City. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson named him to fill the new post of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development at a time of intense inner-city turmoil...