Word: turmoils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across the border from Kuwait...
...once mighty American buck was worth little more than 88 yen and 1.36 marks (it fetched 238 yen and 2.94 marks in 1985); so far this year, the dollar has skidded 9% against both the yen and the mark. But the dollar's troubles were only part of the turmoil: the British pound, the French franc and the Italian lira also tumbled, and the Mexican peso resumed its free fall until the country's harsh new austerity plan led to a rebound. On top of that, governments were forced to devalue the Spanish peseta, the Portuguese escudo and the Brazilian...
Twelve student groups were recognized by the committee, many of which had waited for recognition since lastfall, but were held up in the turmoil over whetherto grant recognition to Harvard Christians inAction...
Nobody can say what the turmoil means-whether the intellectual edifice of modern cosmology is tottering on the edge of collapse or merely feeling growing pains as it works out a few kinks. "If you ask me," says astrophysicist Michael Turner of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, "either we're close to a breakthrough, or we're at our wits...
Pidot explains the recent turmoil that has shaken his publication by talking about "hills and valleys" in organizational history. Whit, this isn't a valley. The chasm is wide and deep, and we wonder whether the Salient will ever emerge from...