Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suharto falls into line, the IMF could accelerate the release of $3 billion in additional funds. And if he doesn?t? The market slide seems sure to continue, and rumors of a military coup, already rife in Jakarta, could move a step closer to reality...
...mood? Asia. For a few days this week, Asia was looking up. South Korea was leveling off. Then came Indonesia. "The panic in Indonesia reminded everyone that the Asia problems aren't going away." In some ways, Indonesia, ripe with rumors of civil unrest and even a military coup, is worse because it sparks the imagination. "Having that on their minds, with the dread of next week," says Schwartz, "there was a rush Friday to get some profits out before it all comes down...
BAGHDAD: As the U.N. Security Council debates what to do about Iraq's continuing defiance of weapons inspectors, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz cooked up another propaganda coup Friday ? by taking foreign journalists on a tour of some of the off-limits-to-weapons-inspectors presidential sites...
...pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
...what sometimes seems to be relentless monopolistic zeal." Especially when it sees something it wants, like the World Wide Web. Currently, Microsoft is locked in a death match with browser king Netscape over who will control the enormous (and still mushrooming) Internet browser market. Microsoft, fresh from its Apple coup and with untold billions to throw behind its campaign, is giving away its browser for free, a deal that younger, smaller Netscape can't match. Fair competition, indeed...