Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Applying the paradigm of choice to the problem of abortion is a public relations coup for the movement--as well as a huge misapplication of the democratic principle of choice...
Like a Shriner with a water pistol? Something like that. Even writers have to get out of the house once in a while. The last time Updike cut loose abroad was about 15 years ago, when he used an African setting for The Coup. Now he retells the Tristan and Isolde legend as a love story about a black teenage mugger from the hillside slums of Rio and an upper-class white girl with a hunger for forbidden experience...
...Tigers (7-8-3, 4-6-3) found themselves on the short end of an overtime home loss to the Crimson for the second straight year: Matt Mallgrave `93 edged Princeton late last time around, and Farrell delivered the coup de main this year...
...President of the U.S. traveled through the snows of Moscow to the dacha & where an empire had been unmade. The sumptuous three-story house is called Novo Ugaryevo, and it was there in April 1991 that Mikhail Gorbachev negotiated the far-ranging reforms that four months later triggered the coup against him: the coup that brought on the Russian revolution that wiped away the Soviet Union and brought to power Bill Clinton's host, Boris Yeltsin. Last week, as trees and fencing glowed with lights marking the Russian new year, saxophone music floated out of Novo Ugaryevo...
BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup...