Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already been hesitant about disbursing the next installment of its long-term $10 billion loan to Russia, but more serious is the fact that the IMF is essentially broke, says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. Replenishment of IMF reserves was stalled by the U.S. Congress's failure to approve an $18 billion contribution. But with a lot of American investors likely to be badly burned if Russia is allowed to go belly up, Gingrich and company may soon be feeling the heat...
...group has had its ups and downs since. By 1830 its members' near monopoly on government positions--and a scandal over the mysterious disappearance of a brother who broke secrecy--provoked the birth of American single-issue politics: the Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed...
STATUS When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, these former states possessed numerous nuclear weapons. All have rid themselves of the warheads and have acceded...
...court, Microsoft will argue, the result would be a world in which federal judges determine which new software can be legally incorporated into new operating systems--highly technical issues at the heart of Microsoft's, and Silicon Valley's, business. What's more, the booming computer industry is hardly broke, yet the feds want the American people to believe that the time has come to step...
...kids say a prayer. He's for guns of every variety and promised never, ever to hire a gay person. But his personal life was at odds with his family-values rhetoric. So he got his first wife to sign an affidavit saying it was her adultery that broke up the marriage, and he got his wife-to-be, former Miss America Tara Dawn Holland, to swear that she is a virgin "saving herself for marriage." He attacked his opponent, Lincoln's Mayor Mike Johanns, over nudity on a public TV station in Lincoln that the mayor doesn't control...