Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evans said that although the racial turmoil in the spring may have deterred students from matriculating, he got no such indication from conversations he had with students who went elsewhere...
...security never lasts. Beneath the surface stability lie fierce passions and unrest that could explode and return the world to the tense place it has been for the last 45 years. Internal changes in Russia or China could jerk the world back into turmoil overnight. Situations in other areas, such as Yugoslavia, could more slowly drag nearby countries into...
...abandonment of his wife Norma ("the Queen of Disorder") and their three children for an affair with Genevieve Mueller ("the Perfect Wife"), the spouse of a younger colleague of his at Wayward Junior College, an all-women institution in southern New Hampshire; and 2) his attempts amid this turmoil to complete his "historical/ psychological, lyrical/elegiacal" biography of James Buchanan, the 15th President...
...with president Jack Smith, 54, the former head of GM's profitable overseas operations, Smale and the board seemed poised to purge Stempel's top lieutenants and embark on a sweeping new round of layoffs to restructure the former flagship of American industry. "GM is spooked and in complete turmoil," said a longtime supplier. "It is faced with total upheaval caused by an outside force -- something that once was unthinkable...
...first model rolled out of its Tennessee factory -- drained $5 billion from other car projects and stirred anger and envy within GM ranks. And Saturn's special status as a stand-alone company within GM has created a snooty attitude on the part of its dealers toward the turmoil in Detroit. "Most of our customers don't know who makes the car," says a Los Angeles Saturn dealer. "So when people come into the showroom and we explain that Saturn is a separate corporation, they think of it as Saturn first and GM second...