Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trained engineer who served as president ofthe Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral inthe early 1970s. Parodi said that Ecuador mustnegotiate alternative repayment methods to avoidthrowing its budget into disarray and slashingsocial spending...
...after the number of protesters multiplied into the tens of thousands, the Politburo announced a newfound willingness to discuss limited reforms. The sudden shift not only indicated a crack in one of the East bloc's most ossified regimes, but also spurred speculation that the ruling party was in disarray -- and that Honecker's days were numbered...
Richard Ullman, a professor at Princeton University, recently wrote in The New York Times that "Israeli politics have been particularly in disarray; indeed, the events may have been a product of that disarray. It [Israel] has behaved as if under seige...
...bloody denouement of the demonstrations seemed to be the direct result of Deng's attempts to retain the upper hand in a protracted power struggle among China's leaders. The disarray was signaled by the failure in recent weeks of party elders to reach consensus on the formal ouster of party chief Zhao Ziyang, who had lost favor because he sympathized with the student protesters. Within the party rank and file, the hard-liners' attempts to brand Zhao a counterrevolutionary had met with silent resistance and even mutters of bu dui (not correct...
...There is a NATO summit this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the alliance. But it too is in disarray. What's your assessment...