Word: turmoils
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...turmoil of constant local wars and foreign invasions prompted Jaipur's ruler, Jai Singh II, to begin building Jantar Mantar in 1724. The astronomical observatory would allow soothsayers to monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...
...When I found out about these charges, I thought, 'Not again,' " Anwar told TIME in a phone interview from the Turkish embassy. "But this shows how desperate the government is. The economy is in a bad state, [parliamentarians] are crossing over to our side, there's turmoil within UMNO...
...suffered the indignity of a parliamentary no-confidence vote; although Samak's six-party coalition, which controls two-thirds of the lower house, shot down the motion by a vote of 280-162, there's no end in sight to Thailand's political crisis. Investors, spooked by the continuing turmoil, have fled the Thai stock market, which has swooned more than 10% since the anti-government protests began in late...
...Zimbabwe's Turmoil Prime Minister Robert Mugabe helped "liberate" the people of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from white rule 30 years ago, but since then he has led them into an abyss of misery. His only goal has been to hang on to power - and while the Western world is shocked by his abuses, no other African leader has had the gumption to unequivocally condemn his tyranny and misrule. Allan de Sousa, Lisbon...
...kept playing tennis through the turmoil. "I still remember the rules," she says. "If you start a match and the bombs come, you have to keep playing. But if the danger was there, you wouldn't start new matches." So much for child safety. "It was a risk," says Ivanovic's youth coach, Dejan Vranes, in the understatement of the Grand Slam season. "But people in the city did their jobs. No one hid in their house...