Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...spasm of communal violence has almost brought down the 11-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, who offered to resign for the second time in three months. It was the most serious challenge yet to Singh, who is struggling to hold his party together, even as the rise of Hindu nationalism threatens to undermine the secular foundations of the world's most populous democracy. Said S.R. Bommai, president of the Prime Minister's Janata Dal party: "The country is at a crossroads. We have to choose between secularism and religious fundamentalism, between democracy and mobocracy, between unity...
...well-developed case of heart disease. Eventually the narrowing arterial passage could be blocked by a blood clot or by a spasm that constricts and closes the artery. That could cut off the blood supply to his heart, causing possibly fatal damage to its muscle. In short, he is a prime candidate for heart attack, which annually strikes 1.5 million Americans, killing half a million of them. (Women as well as men are vulnerable to heart disease, though usually later in life...
Stress, Benson explains, brings on a rise in blood pressure and spurs the release of catecholamines, substances that increase the tendency of blood to clot and make arteries more vulnerable to spasm. Over time, these changes play an important role, many doctors believe, in the progression of heart disease. However, Benson has shown, the changes can be largely counteracted by the "relaxation response" that follows 15 minutes of meditation...
Shuttling between hot spots in the Middle East for the past three weeks, CBS News anchorman Dan Rather has been just where he likes to be: at the center of the action. But last week he missed a big story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since...
However, neither side's concessions will end the violence that racks the country. In the latest spasm of unrest last week, more than 40 people were killed when rival black groups fought in the township of Kagiso and mixed-race rioters clashed with police in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Some black groups, notably the Pan Africanist Congress, say they will not abide by the A.N.C.'s cease-fire...