Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furtherair raids on Chechnya's ruined capital. At least one bomb hit the tall concrete building squarely, setting off a fire on the upper floors, but claiming no casualties as Chechen officials kept to the basement and first floor. (Chechnya's president, Dzhokhar Dudayev, reportedly is concealed in a bunker elsewhere.) TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan says the action by the Russian military -- who are no nearer to 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...
...made movies like Bunker Bean, a comedy about a male stenographer who believes he is Napoleon...
...money rolled in; McNall rolled on. Here racehorses, there silver trading with Nelson Bunker Hunt. In 1988 McNall bought a money-losing hockey team, the languishing Los Angeles Kings, and boosted ticket sales by luring the great Wayne Gretzky for $15 million. He bought the Toronto Argonauts with Gretzky and comedian John Candy, and for $14 million signed Notre Dame wide receiver Raghib Ismail; this too paid off in attendance and TV contracts...
...came face-to-face with justice for the first time, he strove to uphold the swaggering image he had so carefully cultivated through decades of actual and exaggerated derring-do. "This man is a star," Carlos said by way of greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance...
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLÄo restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...