Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard appears to be Cambridge's only solace from rodent turmoil. The rest of the city, as close as Harvard Square, remains a haven for the pesky and potentially dangerous little rodents...
Finally, the plan will take unfair advantage of the fears of Hong Kong Chinese seeking new homes before Britain returns control of the city to China in 1997. Ditto for East Europeans fleeing the ethnic turmoil sparked by the death of communism...
This marketing mania is based on necessity. Department stores have traditionally been the point of sale for high-quality perfumes, but, as Lauder CEO Robin Burns observes, "the stores are in turmoil. You don't see so many consumers with shopping bags." Like many luxury goods, cosmetics have faltered in this recession. The aggressive, gotta-have-it-all mind-set of the 1980s has evaporated...
...basic problem is deeper--and perhaps more worrisome than Duke alone. The basic problem is the American version of the nationalistic turmoil dominating global politics since the Cold War's end. It's the American version of the internal conflicts plaguing the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, the party was hemorrhaging...