Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, some constitutional monarchs have been noted for their brave support of democracy against dictatorship, and, in the Cold War, for serving as a bastion against communism. For instance, King Juan Carlos of Spain has been greatly admired since 1981, when he intervended to prevent a military coup from taking over the Spanish parliament. For Cambodia, the exiled but widely respected King Norodom Sihanouk has been a ray of hope representing democracy, as this summer militant leader Hun Sen crashed the fragile Cambodian peace that had been set up by the United Nations...
...great coup that Harvard got him," Vogel said in an interview last night. "We feel very fortunate to have him speak...
What Turner and his colleagues have done is nonetheless something of a scientific coup, opening up a new line of attack against an ancient scourge. Rather shrewdly, they opted not to attack cold viruses head on. Instead, they resorted to a little bit of molecular camouflage that would, in effect, hide the nose from its microscopic foes...
...Weill's coup not only creates a global financial supermarket, but it will also impel a consolidation in which Wall Street investment companies will either get big or get run over. The merger unites Salomon, a power in bonds and a player in investment banking, with the Travelers-owned Smith Barney brokerage, which is stronger in stocks. The Travelers umbrella also includes companies that sell life insurance, property and casualty insurance, annuities, mutual funds and credit cards. Travelers Group's stock market value of $55 billion will now dwarf such giants as Merrill Lynch ($24 billion) and the newly formed...
...Doll truly shine. When she started working in Garden City seven years ago, she was one of only two nurse practitioners, and childhood immunization rates hovered around 50%. Today there are six nurse practitioners, and immunization rates have jumped to 75%. That may not seem like much of a coup, but it means that somewhere there is a little girl who did not suffer brain damage because she never developed measles, somewhere a little boy who did not have to spend long weeks in the hospital battling whooping cough...