Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Returning to campus after a spring of emotional turmoil over issues of race and gender, Harvard law students say they expect another year of friction between activists and the administration, and within the faculty itself...
...experience. Theirs is the curse of the answered prayer. They have calculated that relative to the size of their economy, it will be 10 times as expensive for them to unite with North Korea as for the Bonn government to absorb the former East Germany. The outbreak of political turmoil in the wake of Kim's death could send hundreds of thousands of Northerners pouring across the Demilitarized Zone. Or would-be refugees might be slaughtered by North Korean troops, a horror that would tempt if not oblige the South to intervene...
...silver plunged on European exchanges as his bank, Saudi Arabia's largest, dumped gargantuan amounts of the metal. The silver shock spilled into oil stocks, which helped fuel a 44-point slide in the Dow- Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange. Although silver and stocks recovered, the turmoil in those markets was the first close-to-home repercussion of the B.C.C.I. scandal in the U.S. It may not be the last...
Otherwise, the meeting primarily illustrated that American miseries can find sympathetic but not very helpful international company. Nearly all of the other six are suffering from economic troubles or weak leadership or both. The seven deplored rising unemployment, lagging or declining production and financial turmoil. What might they do about it? The final communique said nothing specific about any coordinated action...
...workers joined in a general strike, bringing to 50 million the number of working hours lost to work stoppages, far more than in any other West European nation this year. "This was to be the magic year," says political columnist Jose Luis Gutierrez. "Instead the country is in turmoil: you can smell the aggressiveness...