Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation stood on the verge of the Civil War when Harvard President C.C. Felton presented his report for the academic year 1859-60. In the midst of this national turmoil, he and others saw a need for colleges and universities to provide an education based on experience with different kinds of people, in the hope of overcoming regional, cultural, and other barriers...
...dean wanted to enhance the diversity of student and faculty interests, strengthen the education offered to under-graduates and recreate as much as possible the sense of community he believed was lost in the turmoil of the late 1960s...
GINGRICH MAY BE A THRILLING PERSONality for journalists, but he doesn't deserve the honor. The world views the current budget debate in Congress with disgust. Priorities and personal ambitions are clashing in a troublesome turmoil, and the losers will be the elderly, the sick and the poor. The leaders of Congress--specifically Gingrich--should remember their responsibilities and set a good example. CHRISTOPH BUXTORF Basel, Switzerland...
...continued to meet with foreign journalists after he was released from prison, and he clearly violated the terms of his parole." Wei's harsh 14 year sentence is intended to provide a warning both to other dissidents and to the West, notes Bloch, from a government beset by internal turmoil and international disapproval of its human rights record...
Gingrich is also a revolutionary leader, a man comfortable with the kind of turmoil required to bring about change. But revolutionary leaders in America, even when they are successful, usually flare for only a year or two, and then they tend to fade. Gingrich may be able to resist that, but history suggests that would be very tough...