Lack of necessities — clean water, safe housing, health care, infrastructure — along with rampant political unrest and torture at the hands of Iraqi security forces represent the aftermath of the war against Iraq.
It was another season of economic gloom when I departed, the "winter of discontent" of early Thatcher, with British Steel on strike, unemployment headed skyward, public spending cuts rampant, social unrest brewing (the devastating Brixton and Toxteth riots were just a year away), and the Yorkshire Ripper prowling.
In spearheading the creation of Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo crossed the starkest line of all: Do not challenge the Communist Party's monopoly on political power, and do not suggest that China's problems — including widespread corruption, labor unrest, and rampant environmental degradation — might be connected to the lack of progress on political reform.
Political unrest was rampant at the time.
By the 1930s, workers fumed about this inequity and labor unrest was rampant.
Cities as far afield and as varied as Rio de Janeiro, Byblos, San Francisco and New York have produced detailed strategies; each offers a bespoke blueprint for how the city will better prepare for, and bounce back from, all manner of pressures and shocks – not just climate change and natural disasters, but rampant urbanisation, economic downturns, social unrest, changing technologies and more.
One thing keeping them in check, however, is fear of rampant inflation, which could increase social unrest.
Business Challenges While it has some of the lowest labor costs in the developing world, Bangladesh, with rampant corruption, congested roads and frequent unrest, is a tough place to do business.
There was the Summer of Sam and the summer of the West Nile virus, summers when blackouts, racial unrest, heat waves, crime waves or, yes, rampant pit bull attacks defined the season.
HMP Birmingham was the scene on Friday of the worst prison riot since the infamous 1990 Strangeways unrest, as more than 600 prisoners ran rampant for 12 hours, setting fires and battling specially trained Tornado Squad officers.
