Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever the ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding operations in foreign markets such as Asia and the former Soviet bloc, areas where tobacco regulations are scarce and youthful consumers eager to snap up high-profile Western products are plentiful. Also in the works -- development of "safer" cigarettes, which so far haven't made it out of research labs. Osteen has promised a decision on the regulations anywhere from between five to 10 weeks...
Bulgaria was the most docile of the old Warsaw Pact states, and its bosses held onto the bobbing wreckage of the Soviet-era centralized economy long after the bloc broke up in 1989. The Communist Party, restyled the Socialist Party, has governed for four of the seven years since then, keeping 90% of the economy in the hands of the state. While inflation soared and wages plummeted, corrupt officials stripped the country of its assets, turning the rest of Bulgaria's 8.4 million people into some of the poorest in Europe. Bulgarians have had enough and are demanding that Parliament...
...most interesting aspect of this election is that Clinton in effect established a new party--one that appealed to the current moderate instincts of most Americans while offering hope for women, nonwhites and the growing bloc of people who feel "disadvantaged." And the Republicans didn't have a clue about how to counter this agenda. The election result was a foregone conclusion. JAMES P. FENTRESS East Granby, Connecticut...
...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
...have gone chest to chest over who should run the international peace organization when Boutros-Ghali's term expires Dec. 31. "You're out," says Clinton. "I won't go," answers Boutros-Ghali. "We veto you," responds Clinton. "I'm still the only candidate," retorts Boutros-Ghali. The African bloc can keep submitting the 74-year-old diplomat's name to the Security Council for a second five-year term, and the U.S. can keep vetoing his re-election, but such a fruitless battle of wills is guaranteed to produce only two sure things: more damage to U.N. credibility...