Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew to New York on Dec. 22 to face a meeting of angry bankers and fund managers, Serra found a roomful of sour expressions. To make matters worse, he lacked answers to many of the group's questions and bristled when asked why he hadn't resigned after having broken his promise to the financial community. "Everyone's been yelling and screaming all year for the peso to be devalued," says Kathleen Heaney, head of Latin American equity research at Bankers Trust. "But the way it was done really freaked people out. Wall Street doesn't like surprises...
...containing the crisis -- suggests Yeltsin's authority is in jeopardy. "There are serious questions that have to be raised when the commander-in-chief gives an order and it's disobeyed," Kohan says. "One has the sense in general that this is a war in which they've broken every single rule that applies to modern warfare." Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today that he supported Russia's right to suppress armed insurrection but worried that Yeltsin's military assault has escalated out of his control; in Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the Russian leader to press...
...Wednesday, Dec. 14, Chechen president Jokhar Dudayev had broken off negotiations with a Russian team and summoned his people to "a war for life or death." But on Friday he proclaimed a cease-fire and announced that he would reopen talks. The stated positions of the two sides would seem to leave nothing to talk about. Dudayev was demanding that Russia immediately pull out its forces and recognize the full independence he had proclaimed for Chechnya three years ago, while Yeltsin insisted as a precondition for any withdrawal that the Chechens disarm and end their secession. The view in Moscow...
...BOSNIA: Broken Promises...
...Broken Glass...