Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play depicts a group of students, professors and spouses from an American university touring England to see various improving plays. But social politics throw the innocent academic holiday into turmoil. The head of the English department has decided to fire an assistant professor, but can't summon the courage to tell him. A student accuses another professor of sexual harrassment. Romantic and platonic tension abounds...
...West fails to bring peace to Bosnia, Serbian power will roll over the Muslims, parts of Croatia and the last hope of Albanian freedom in Kosovo. That's just the moral side of the problem.. The practical side is even scarier. If Bosnian turmoil continues, angry Muslim countries might send arms and probably soldiers to their fellow Muslims, where-upon resentful Russians will doubtless do the same for their fellow Slavs, the Serbs...
...that the day has finally arrived, is the mood so morose? Europe's failure to deal with the Yugoslav crisis has exposed its impotence in foreign policy. Its prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut...
...Committee, where lobbyists hover over the 38 members as they yank and pull at each spending proposal. "At Ways and Means, we're looking at the most important six months of the committee's existence," says Texas Congressman Bill Archer, the ranking Republican. "If lobbyists can organize so much turmoil over a little tax loophole, just imagine what they'll do with Clinton's plan...
...face of the alarming religious and political turmoil prevailing in South Asia at this moment, I think that 'Ghungroo' serves as an important symbol of the unity among a fifth of the world's population," said audience member Faruk A. Khan...