Word: strife
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When Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister last May, she promised nothing less than an economic revolution. During a secure five-year mandate, she would start to reform a socialist economy plagued by years of economic stagnation, inflation, unemployment and industrial strife -whatever the cost. Now, after only ten months of the Iron Lady's rule, the cost of those policies for many Britons is already proving too high...
...London coffee shop owned by Edward Lloyd in 1687, will need all its ingenuity and eye for new business to face its current problems. Lloyd's is hurting financially because of some staggering insurance claims, and is torn by a bitter in-house lawsuit. Because of the strife, Lloyd's new chairman, Peter Green, 55, told TIME that he now intends to ask the British Parliament this year to pass a new act governing the insurance exchange. This would be the first significant new legislation covering Lloyd's since...
From the days of Columbus, most of the islands have been ravaged by colonial strife. Since World War II, many have been despoiled by commercial neocolonialists, with their genius for blanketing beach and meadow with concrete and neon. Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have...
...most dazzling run-ups in history, and it underscored the enduring psychological lure of the yellow metal as the most consistently sought-after possession in times of strife and uncertainty. Concludes Sociologist Neil Smelser, author of Theory of Collective Behavior: "The gold rush is a classic case of panic. The people who are dealing in gold are operating under the fantasy that the world economic structure is going to collapse. They are living by the myth hat the only thing that will survive is gold." Harvard Social Psychologist Roger Brown compares the panic to he rush on the gates...
...Cambridge now has witnessed something even strife-twisted Boston has never gone through--the death of a student...