Word: unrested
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...what can the U.S. do? Aides to Bush say the unrest roiling the Muslim world hasn't shaken his faith that democracy helps relieve extremism in the long run, because the prosaic work of governing tends to make ideological politicians more pragmatic. "Elections are just the start in his view," says a senior Administration official. It's encouraging, U.S. officials say, that powerful Muslim figures--including Iraq's most influential cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, and even some leaders of Hamas--have tried to quell the unrest over the Danish cartoons out of fear of a collapse...
...some of the shine has gone off Thaksin's reputation. In the south, Muslim-majority provinces are wracked by ethnic conflict, violence that Thaksin's critics say has been exacerbated by his administration's heavy-handed military response to unrest, which won international notoriety when 78 people died in police custody after being arrested in Oct. 2004. Opponents condemn Thaksin's placement of relatives in key positions-his cousin, General Chaisit Shinawatra, was first made army chief and then the military's supreme commander, and his brother-in-law Priawpan Damapong serves as deputy chief of the national police...
...while Faculty members stress their commitment to reforming undergraduate education, many worry about the unrest created by Kirby’s abrupt departure and its implications for professors and administrators...
...With much left to accomplish and growing unrest among professors, the curricular review faces significant challenges in coming months...
...1930s: Auto sales drop; labor unrest rises, as does the U.A.W.; Congress passes labor-relations laws as part of the New Deal...