Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most recent issues Jewett has dealt with has been the turmoil in Dunster House, Where the master was charged with unfair hiring practices and with intimidating those in the House who opposed him. as dean of the college, the matter was investigated, but never issue a promised report...
...Hanoukai verdict provoked little of of the turmoil attending the acquittals of Lorena and John Bobbitt and the hung juries of the Menendez brothers. But critics charge that all these legal proceedings illustrate the same trend: juries are increasingly willing to make allowances for mitigating circumstances once considered largely irrelevant -- abused spouses who kill, violated children who murder incestuous parents, victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome driven to violence by disturbing flashbacks...
...acceptance rate would remain at its current 5% level. That disturbs those who believe the persecution rate is growing. They argue that all Haitian refugees should be awarded temporary protected status, a category that admits refugees into the U.S. for only as long as their countries are in turmoil and that applied during crises to Salvadorans, Kuwaitis and Somalis...
...throughout the Arab world. Neither, however, seemed eager for mediation. After separate meetings with Northern and Southern officials in Cairo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he saw no sign of an early end to hostilities. While the majority of Yemenis regard themselves as one nation, the blame for the turmoil rests squarely on two leaders who decided to settle their rivalry by starting...
...past month, anyone watching the two unimaginable dramas playing out in Africa was left wondering which one was prophecy. "We have moved from an era of pessimism, division, limited opportunity and turmoil," declared Nelson Mandela after he took his turn to vote an end to three centuries of racial hatred. "We are starting a new era of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building." All across South Africa the people lined up to cast a ballot to escape from their past. All along Rwanda's borders and into the instant refugee camps, they lined up to escape from the future...