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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter and influential aide, Tatiana Dyachenko, have since siphoned power away from the President and are running the country through him. While Korzhakov says he feels sorry for Yeltsin, don't look for the granite-faced former KGB employee to go easy on the President who is now a bitter enemy. Yeltsin, in any case, is ill equipped to stand up to public scandal. For the first time since the President's disappearance from public view, a Kremlin official conceded Tuesday that Yeltsin's recovery is going slower than expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bodyguard On The Make | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...much, but they pass through the brand-new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah--a 1.7 million-acre tract that many consider the most beautiful spot in the U.S. The trails that crisscross it are scars from the latest tactic in one of the region's most bitter land wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEP DIVIDE | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...strike could cost more -- the airline stands to lose more in the first week than it stands to gain by winning the contract dispute. In any event, industry analysts don't expect a walkout to last more than 60 days. Hanging over both sides is the memory of the bitter pilots' strike that brought down Eastern Airlines less than a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Special On The Ground? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

More ambiguous episodes followed. During the 1975 pressman's strike, Graham helped wrap Sunday papers herself in an effort to keep the paper publishing; it's a charming scene, but her account of the bitter labor battle is understandably one-sided. She agonizes about the executives she had to fire, then complains of the "sexist implications" of stories that call her a difficult woman to work for. There was steel there after all. Kay Graham had finally come of age: she no longer had to please everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KATHERINE GRAHAM: THE IRON LADY SPEAKS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...mention of rent control conjures up bitter memories...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Rent Control's Demise: A Tale of Two Families | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

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