Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once air-raid sirens first wailed throughout Israel, however, Shamir's image improved enormously. He was praised for his unprecedented restraint and calm leadership in the face of the Iraqi Scud missile attacks that killed at least four Israeli civilians and left more than 300 wounded. During the war, Shamir...
But OSHA still lacks the clout to protect most American workers. By one important measure, the jobsite is safer: work-related fatalities have dropped from 12,500 ten years ago to 10,500 last year. But that is partly because there are fewer jobs these days in some of the...
What, then, to make of the legislative spectacle in Moscow last week during which a re-energized Gorbachev delivered the coup de grace to the mortally wounded carcass of communism? Working in concert with Yeltsin and the leaders of nine other republics, Gorbachev rammed through laws that both eradicated the...
Increasingly, these long-simmering tensions are flaring into violence, especially in cities where one of the groups has a monopoly on political power. Last May, Hispanics in black-controlled Washington went on a two-day rampage after a Latino man was wounded by a black police officer. In Cuban- dominated...
1987: An attempt to quell Iranians staging a violent political protest against the U.S., the Soviet Union and Israel left 402 dead, 649 wounded in Mecca.