Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite an admittedly lackluster first half, the Crimson hung with last season's fourth-place Ivy finishers for almost 45 minutes, very nearly replicating its 0-0 affair with Central Connecticut State earlier in the week...
...impeach the President. Key military and security units around Moscow were put on heightened alert. It felt a lot like 1993, when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the parliament building to dissolve a rebellious legislature. Meanwhile, governors across Russia began to act on their own to replace the central government that had vaporized three weeks earlier. From Kaliningrad to Yakutia, provincial leaders decreed price controls, slashed taxes and cut off payments to the Russian Federation. "Forget about Moscow," Governor Aman Tuleev of Siberia's Kemerovo region advised his staff...
Primakov also accepted the Duma's choice as the new head of the central bank, Viktor Gerashchenko. Actually, he is not new, as he was head of the bank twice before: once when many ordinary citizens had their savings wiped out by a disastrous reform in 1991, and again when the ruble sank 30% on a single day, Black Tuesday, in 1994. During both tours of duty, Gerashchenko was widely criticized for heedlessly printing rubles and pumping almost unlimited credit into rusting, unproductive industrial enterprises and collective farms...
...parallels between the two Marxist alumni are eerie. China, eight times as populous as Russia and with an economy that last year expanded 20 times as fast as Russia's, suffers many of the same infirmities. Its banking system is just as rotten, corruption flourishes beyond the central government's control, labor unrest is widespread, a budget deficit is growing, taxes can't be collected, and an inefficient network of state enterprises still hamstrings a full transition to the free market...
This festival has been an institution in Switzerland for decades, so the version that co-producers Claude Nobs and Quincy Jones brought to New York City's Central Park could have easily devolved into a tired museum exhibit. That wasn't the case. Savion Glover did a tap-vs.-congas duet with drummer Leon Parker; singer Patti Austin added a line about Teletubbies to her brisk version of Makin' Whoopee. And the best performance came from vocalist Joe Williams, 79, who sang a swinging, confident rendition of one of his signature songs, Every Day I Have the Blues...