Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disaster. They do, however, suggest that the very idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the neighborhoods that were ravaged by riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls, in parks, atop trash piles and in empty lots, always 10 to the square mile...
...turmoil was prompted by an advertisement in Justice that attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as a "false and manipulative" representation; as well, it questioned whether the Nazi gas chambers ever existed and whether the genocide of European Jews ever really occurred. The outcry on the largely Jewish Brandeis campus was understandable but somewhat misdirected; the decision to run the ad had been made by the Justice editorial board, on which the editor in chief has no vote...
...Detroit gave Eaton's succession at Chrysler much chance at all. A career GM man, he had spent his recent years in Europe, well away from the turmoil and strife that had gripped his industry's hometown. He was something of a shotgun compromise in Chrysler's boardroom showdown between Iacocca and president Bob Lutz, and in the view of some skeptics, mainly lucked out in grabbing the prize after all the hard work had been done. Eaton arrived alone, brought in none of his deputies (not even his secretary) and fired no one. In Chrysler's recent history...
...lecture, which was sponsored by Harvard Organization of Latin America, DeZala discussed the background of the current turmoil in South and Central America and the efforts made by OAS to foster democracy and social balance...
...American- born may be the nation's oldest and most persistent bias. (Curiously, it was not until 1850 that the U.S. Census took note of where Americans were born.) Apart from slaves, Asians (principally the Chinese) suffered most from this prejudice. Seeking fortune and escape from the turmoil of the Opium Wars, Chinese first began arriving in California during the 1840s. Initially, they were welcomed. During the 1860s, 24,000 Chinese were working in the state's gold fields, many of them as prospectors. As the ore gave out, former miners were hired to build the Central Pacific Railroad; others...