Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special review committee to consider different options for student government reform. The committee would be similar to the Fainsod Committee that established the student-faculty advisory committees--mainly CHUL, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--in the wake of the campus unrest...
...gathered to lament the dead. Mourners became ravagers who roamed the streets shouting anti-Shah slogans, smashing windows and starting fires. Government forces sent warning shots into the air in an attempt to restore order. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens to "maintain the lowest profile possible" while the unrest continued...
SUCH AN ARGUMENT is a popular one, especially during times of what the syndicated columnists like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government...
...program, arguing that the city has been losing its middle class mainly because of crime and poor schools, not high housing costs. Bankers also fret about possible disruptive effects on the regular mortgage market. Still, the experiment has appeal in an age of spreading downtown decay and rising taxpayer unrest. Two Colorado cities, Denver and Pueblo, plan similar programs to start in a few weeks...
...reported corruption which has plagued the Christian Democrats' rule for the past 30 years, the diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes, depending of course on one's perspective) has unrest and a disturbing wave of terrorist kidnapping, murder, and sabotage. A large and diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes depending of course on one's perspective), has emerged, including such notables as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, Pope Paul VI, Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, prominent Mafia chieftains, and Brigate Rosse revolutionaries. Both the American CIA and Kremlin officials have also been charged...