It has long been a magnet for flight capital chased by political unrest or currency instability, particularly in the 1970's and 1980's when rich Latin Americans sought refuge from economic tumult.

They can lend at artificially low interest rates, perhaps too low to reward them for their risks, and they can stretch out repayment schedules, leaving themselves exposed to unforeseen economic tumult.

That has only increased with the expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe and with Russian resentments about its economic tumult.

The economic tumult of the last decade was supposed to end all that.

The third major candidate was Mr. García, 56, whose presidency ended in economic tumult and violence but who captivates many Peruvians with his oratory.

More surprising after a year of economic tumult and high inflation, 53 percent supported his program of economic reforms.

In addition, the performance scheduled for 1920 was postponed to 1922 due to the economic and political tumult following the First World War.

After decades of controlling Lebanon's political and economic life, Syria is facing the prospect of political and economic tumult as its hold over Lebanon grows weaker.

In the late 1920s, global economic tumult compounded the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe, which the IFCTU opposed.

The tanks facing each other across central Europe are no longer the problem, in other words, but the economic and political tumult swirling about them can be every bit as lethal.