Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fueled by smouldering unrest, a brushfire of student activism once again swept the Law School campus this year...
...recurring theme in the power struggles between the Corporation and the Overseers of the 18th and 19th centuries was the debate over student morality. The more conservative Overseers generally favored greater restrictions on behavior than the Corporation, but they agreed in a few famous examples of student unrest...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
...countries most seriously affected would be Japan (which imports 58% of its oil from the gulf), Italy (46%), Spain (39%), and France (35%). In response to oil fears, the Tokyo stock exchange last Thursday experienced the second-worst day in its history. Furthermore, an oil cutoff could generate unrest and even upheaval in some of the gulf states. It could also lead the Arab countries to make withdrawals from Western banks, thereby putting added strain on the already troubled financial markets...
...billion foreign debt, of which Mexico's $85 billion is second only to Brazil's $96 billion, poses a potentially worse problem for the U.S. than the turmoil in Central America. The reason: many countries are being forced to impose harsh austerity measures that create social unrest. The Mexican delegation specifically asked Reagan to ease import tariffs on such Mexican products as steel and leather goods. Administration officials were somewhat unsympathetic, arguing that Mexico's markets are far more protected than those of the U.S. Mexico, for example, sells some $40 million worth of beer...