Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who say the only solution is to get out, what they're really saying is that the only solution in South Africa is a revolution, a bloodbath," Petersen said...
...WASHINGTON, Congress has finally rammed through Ronald Reagan's roadblocks and implemented sanctions against South Africa. But it is too little, too late. Congress has come clean just in time to take a bloodbath. "It will harm us, but it will not kill us," said South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha of the impending U.S. sanctions...
...million operating loss. The best unregulated year was 1984, when industry-wide profits hit $2.3 billion. But last year airline earnings dipped 39%, to $1.4 billion, meaning that on average, carriers had profit margins of only 2%. The first half of 1986 has once again been a bloodbath, with losses of $765 million. Says Kahn: "Some diminution of intense price cutting is probably necessary and healthy." Agrees Dan Smith, an executive with the Dallas-based International Airline Passengers Association: "Even consumers realize that airlines have to make a buck...
Investors tried to put the bloodbath in perspective. While severe, it still left the Dow 212 points above what it was at the start of 1986 and a remarkable 1000 points above its level in August 1982, when the bull market started. Quantitatively, it was the largest falloff ever, but the 4.6% drop in share values on Thursday was nowhere near the chilling 12.8% plunge of the Great Crash...
...their action had remotely advanced any Palestinian political aims, which include the recovery of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They had failed to spring their allies from prison in Larnaca or even to reach Cyprus themselves, and their murderous misadventure in Karachi had turned into a bloodbath that antagonized Pakistan, a Muslim country that has always been sympathetic to the Palestinians' demands...