Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salvador's $400 million worth of annual coffee exports mainly benefits a handful of wealthy families and helps finance death squads and military atrocities against civilians. "There's blood on that coffee," says Fred Ross, the group's director. "Action by corporations like Procter & Gamble could send economic shock waves into El Salvador and force a negotiated settlement...
...rooms were dumping grounds for bad doctors and training grounds for young ones. But the experience of two world wars, Korea and especially Vietnam taught doctors that saving injured patients depended as much on speed as on skill. Doctors refer to "the golden hour" after a trauma, before irreversible shock sets in, when lifesaving treatment is most likely to succeed. Beginning in the early '80s, states organized themselves into trauma networks and began tailoring training programs for physicians interested in emergency care as a specialty. The goal was not entirely altruistic: the hope was that most accident victims would...
...shock. I can't believe we came back being down that much...
...Last month he infuriated environmentalists by arguing that action against the threat of global warming should wait for more research. The man behind that go-slow position was John Sununu. An announcement by the U.S. delegate to a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week came as a further shock: the U.S. will oppose the creation of a new $100 million fund to help developing countries avoid using chlorofluorocarbons...
...week prison officials came up with an explanation. An overzealous maintenance man had replaced the natural sponge in the headpiece with a synthetic sponge bought at a local store. When tested in a toaster, the synthetic sponge started to smoke. Tafero, officials insisted, was brain-dead after the first shock of electricity and felt no pain...