Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politicians of every stripe hastened to connect the attacks to the continuing war in Dagestan. "At the same time, though," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "they?re also stressing that they?re not grounds for declaring a state of emergency, which could be used to cancel elections...
...boss has raised the specter of unconstitutional moves. Inside Russia, Putin is known as an "ice-head" or tough hardened guy--not the ideal pedigree for shoring up the nation's rickety democratic system. But while Putin and Yeltsin could declare a state of emergency, disband the Duma or cancel elections, Kremlin aides insist that Yeltsin appreciates the importance of a peaceful transfer of power...
...fighting in Dagestan, a tiny Muslim republic of 2.1 million people and more than 30 ethnic groups in the Russian North Caucasus, is turning into a full-fledged war. In Moscow's political back rooms, there's fear it may evolve into something even more frightening: an excuse to cancel coming elections and clamp a state-of-emergency rule over Russia...
...learn the ways of running a campaign--and yet, long-time political journalists tell me that his campaign is better run than them all. First, they note, Bush, has a relatively small staff. He's known to switch speech topics at the last minute, change his schedule, and cancel events because he's too tired...
Banned from selling tickets and performing, the Kroks were forced to cancel their shows in China and instead traveled the country on tourist visas...