Word: beene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The student militants did well by their exploits, later winning election or appointments to high posts. But their luck ran out after Khomeini died in 1989. In 1991, Asgharzadeh found himself not only removed from his seat in Parliament but also heading for prison for criticizing the despotic tendencies of...
Americans may not follow the logic. Yet Abdi's words are more encouraging than the all-too-familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as...
It was the latest in a series of controversies in which the company, by virtue of its enormous size and reach, has played an unwanted role as a sort of national conscience, discount division. Wal-Mart has been accused of being both censor and nanny, condemned as a promoter of...
They didn't happen fast enough to prevent Ali Asif Zardari from dumping millions of dollars into Citi accounts. The husband of Benazir Bhutto, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zardari faced corruption allegations. In fact, the report says, Reed was advised by bank staff to "stay away from him...
Then there was Omar Bongo, another former client, who has been the President of the oil-rich West African nation of Gabon since 1967. When Citi belatedly got around to working up his customer profile, officials were at a loss to explain the origin of more than $100 million held...