Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Wael Imad's stricken mother arrived at the chaotic main gate of Shifa Hospital. The yard in front of the hospital was crowded with bloodied young men and people searching frantically for injured relatives. Mozna Imad gave her name to an orderly. As soon as she spoke, she was surrounded by doctors and nurses. They carried her off to a single-story white structure in the corner of the yard. This was Shifa's morgue...
...Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern electors...
...first few years of marriage can be predictive. Frequent use of unifying words such as "us" and "we," significant interaction in the spouses' daily life, and public demonstrations of fondness for the partner are signs of future marital stability. By contrast, couples who describe their lives as chaotic tend to divorce early...
Several directors say that despite PBHA's perennial struggles to fund the summer programs, they run relatively smoothly after directors finish the chaotic fundraising...
...ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all can't make up your minds, why don't we just...I mean, if it ain't broke...