Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake decided to forgo an autumn of grinding it out on the professional circuit and will play for Harvard for the entire 1998-99 season. His summer experiment took him to all levels of professional competition--satellite, challenger and the prestigious ATP tour...
When the Soviet Union was disintegrating during the late autumn of 1991, a band of disillusioned demonstrators gathered in Red Square. Bobbing along in their midst, under the shelter of the Kremlin's looming brick walls, was a placard that read 70 YEARS ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE. The accusation was an angry and poignant truth. But then Russia was reborn under the old tricolor flag and set a new course toward not just reform but total transformation. And now, with the collapse of the economy and the paralysis of the government, that hopeful path has also run into...
MOSCOW: Russia's new $18 billion IMF deal comes loaded with a raft of economic strictures, and Boris Yeltsin knows that the Russian people are in for a long autumn of discontent. Time for a new top cop. TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier says Yeltsin's sacking Sunday of his domestic security chief means the Russian president is intent on keeping his government young, strong and in firm control of the populace...
...agenda and a sense that the best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing them. We have the papers; we're reviewing them.' That's what we would say. Over and over...
...grim Churchillian defiance, BBC radio would have broadcast Halifax's crisp announcement of the "end of this mad war." Unhindered by a battle with Britain, Hitler would have been free to launch an even more ferocious assault on the Soviet Union, pushing German troops to Moscow by early autumn. The Reich might not have lasted 1,000 years but probably would have done better than...