Word: mor
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...Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger (1845-1849), the worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...foot-tall sculpture of an emaciated woman holding her dead child as she watches her grown son leave with her other child provides a depiction of a family and country broken apart by famine. The granite base is engraved with a dedication to the victims of "An Gorta Mor," The Great Hunger...
Enrollment of males and females in the ten most popular courses, spring semester 1994. Course Female Male Soc. analysis 10 327 562 Mor. Reason. 40 193 275 Bio. Sciences 1 201 195 Science B-29 178 197 Chemistry 27 139 160 Lit. & Arts C-61 93 204 Philosophy 192 83 203 Bio. Sciences 11 118 167 Hist. Studies B-42 107 183 Mathematics 21b 87 200 Source: Office of the Registrar of the Romans is male-dominated, we try to showthat there is quite a lot that can be studiedabout the images and treatment of women in theperiod of Augustus...
Both were leaders in their fields. But in back-to-back reversals of fortune, Wang Laboratories and Phar-Mor took refuge from their creditors in Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. Wang, whose word processors led the charge into office automation in the 1970s, said it would lay off 5,000 of its remaining 13,000 workers. The Massachusetts-based company had been piling up losses for years after missing out on the personal computer revolution. Big losers included the family of the late An Wang, who founded the company in 1951. From a peak of $1.6 billion...
...Phar-Mor, the largest and fastest-growing U.S. deep discount drugstore chain -- with 306 stores in 33 states -- sought bankruptcy court protection after firing president Michael Monus and chief financial officer Patrick Finn and taking a $350 million write-off. The company claimed that Monus and Finn embezzled $10 million and overstated profits, then sued its accountants, Coopers & Lybrand, for failing to spot the fraud. Coopers countersued, accusing Phar-Mor executives of providing false and misleading figures to audit...