Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week rioting broke out on several islands. The anger comes from 90% of the 202 million Indonesians who are Muslims and is largely directed against the nation's ethnic Chinese, who account for only 4% of the population but control about 70% of the economy. So long as the unrest is contained by Indonesian strongman SUHARTO, the Pentagon doesn't think an emergency evacuation will be required. But his hold is shaky, and if increased rioting turns into wholesale violence, the U.S. military might be called on to ferry Americans to safety...
...anti-war demonstrations and student unrest of the late 1960s strained the relationship between the University and the paper to the breaking point. Crimson executives stormed University Hall along with protestors and, according to Epps and Decherd, allowed bias to creep into news stories...
...statesmanship, courage and imperturbability guided Harvard and Radcliffe's alliance during the turbulent period of national unrest," Wilson said in a news release...
...tech stocks." What's spoiling the mood? Asia. For a few days this week, Asia was looking up. South Korea was leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest and even a military coup, is worse because it sparks the imagination. "Having that on their minds, with the dread of next week," says Schwartz, "there was a rush Friday to get some profits out before it all comes down...
...after that company became the target of a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. "Our New York television adventure can only be described as a detour," says Dow Jones spokesman Richard Tofel. "It didn't get us to where we were going." But with its large shareholders showing signs of unrest, wherever the company is going, it had better get there fast...