Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Department sources say hiring new supervisors from among the guards in a deeply divided unit would have created even more turmoil. Vallier says that such a move, in a guard service that has lost money in recent years, doesn't make economic sense...
Suriname has been in political and financial turmoil almost from the time it gained its independence from the Netherlands in 1975. At first the Dutch and other foreign donors gave the new country generous aid, but they cut back sharply in the 1980s when Suriname suffered a series of coups and massacres. The violence culminated in a six-year civil war that led to the fall of the military regime of Lieut. Colonel Desi Bouterse...
...exodus follows nearly five years of increasing turmoil in Cuba after the fall of its Soviet patrons. Since 1989, imports have dropped from $8 billion to $2 billion. Last summer Castro eased a few restrictions. Possession of U.S. currency is no longer illegal, and some private employment is allowed. The timid reforms raised hopes for improved living standards. But a year later, with Castro blocking liberalization, and tensions erupting between the haves and the have-nots, refugees say hope has died. Ration books provide barely two weeks' worth of food. For the rest, families must rely on the black market...
Produced by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of thirtysomething -- a show that also skillfully portrayed the interior lives of affluent young people -- My So-Called Life depicts Angela's turmoil at home and in school. In a leafy suburb we find Angela perpetually at odds with her mother and father. She wants from her parents what all teenagers want, the freedom to go to a rave or dye her hair a fiery red. At school she is torn between an enduring affection for her childhood friend Sharon -- a well- behaved clarinetist dressed to her socks in pink...
...fiscal and monetary prescriptions the bank imposes on borrowers have thrown the economies of some developing countries into turmoil, sending the prices of necessities beyond the reach of the poor...