Word: unrest
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...After 32 years in power, this nation's ruler stepped down amid growing economic unrest...
...monologues, remained opened and messy at the plays conclusion. When a peaceful ending was denied, and the unsettling reality of the play remained, the fragmented aesthetic of the production became sensical. The aesthetic incongruity was not a failing but another voice for the message of continuing social unrest and inequality...
...Especially during times of student unrest there was constant interaction between our office and Archie," Bok says...
...factory for political chaos, full of secessionists, radical Muslims, communists and renegade soldiers fomenting catastrophe. But in a swirl of the very disorder he claimed to have dispelled, Suharto was forced last May to relinquish power to a trusted disciple, B.J. Habibie. Even that move could not stem the unrest, and after six months of political tension and economic hardship, chaos has returned to the world's fifth most populous country. Indonesia's woes have been a driving force behind Asia's financial crisis, and the new instability could trigger global market shudders...
Arafat's satisfaction, however, was tempered when thousands of Palestinians rioted in the West Bank city of Ramallah two days after the signing ceremony. It had nothing to do with the agreement, about which ordinary Palestinians have shown indifference and skepticism. Instead, the unrest was the culmination of a feud between the Palestinian Authority's military intelligence, run by Musa Arafat, the chairman's cousin, and members of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Musa Arafat's men had ransacked a Fatah office, and the provocation touched off a furious response, fed by growing frustration with...