Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work of lesser opponents. She finished the final in gory "Moral Kombat" fashion, delivering a perfect roundhouse kick that crushed her opponent's nose with a sound that her teammate Josh Bartholomew described as like "a sock full of marbles hitting a wet turkey." Watching the video of the coup de grace confirms this description, even for those of us who are more humane to we turkeys...
While students running the Emerson Collegeradio station, WERS-FM (88.9), recently faced astation coup as college administrators began toreplace their home-grown programming withprofessional deejays, WHRB is by-and-large studentcontrolled...
...single strangest thing about the week that led up to the release of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony was the consensus around Washington. It was something like a certainty that the tapes would be the coup de grace. Clinton would destroy himself by twitching, equivocating and storming out of the room. To believe that, all you had to do was ignore the weight of public opinion that's been pressing upon this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts...
...want to know they're in safe hands." Indeed, on a day when Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov muttered darkly that "Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war" and Olympic-level athletes threatened to pull out of a Moscow track meet for fear of being injured in a coup, it's not hard...
...with nukes," says Baumohl. "The same failing economy, the same social unrest. But with Russia, there's that spectre that if the wrong people come to power, we've got the Cold War all over again." Baumohl looks at Viktor Chernomyrdin's return to the Kremlin as a "soft coup" -- but what comes next could be very, very hard...