Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Looking backward, life seems to shine with new promise. The civil war that ravaged Ethiopia for 30 years is over. In the five months since Mengistu Haile Mariam, the country's hard-line Marxist dictator for 14 years, was driven from power, the competing guerrilla bands have achieved a relative peace and joined in a transitional government. The death toll has fallen from 10,000 people a , month to a few hundred. Where torture and disappearances once silenced opposition voices, Ethiopians now feel free to voice their demands and even shout insults at President Meles Zenawi, a democratic exercise...
...think we've gone a little bit backward tonight. Things must have happened behind closed doors to get those votes to turn out the way they did," Salerno said yesterday...
...even suggest returning the political capital to St. Petersburg, though Sobchak says his task is "to revive St. Petersburg as the financial, cultural and scientific capital of Russia." For a precedent, Sobchak turns to the city's founder, Peter the Great, the Czar who set out to westernize the backward Russian Empire. "For 10 years Peter the Great tried to carry out reforms in Moscow, but nothing came of it," Sobchak says. "Then he moved to the banks of the Neva River, founded a capital here and achieved his reforms. And so now we have the chance to repeat Peter...
...homes began to shift into high gear. But in the clear light of autumn, that hopeful moment seems long gone. Despite assertions from Washington and most economists that the recession ended last May, the recovery may be the weakest in postwar history, and many sectors could even be sliding backward. "The situation is far worse than the government would like us to believe, and things are going to remain this difficult for some time," says Bernard Brennan, chairman of Montgomery Ward. "I think we're naive to assume that we're out of the recession. It's even probable that...
Thus ended a Wanderjahr in which Wolf fled through central Europe to the Soviet Union shortly before unification, then trekked backward because his continued sanctuary in Moscow seemed risky in the aftermath of the failed August coup. In Austria, his last stop before turning himself in, Wolf appeared to be teasing Bonn with impunity for three weeks. He applied for political asylum, counting on the international legal practice prohibiting extradition of individuals to countries where they are wanted for political crimes...