Word: disarrayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenge was not Yeltsin's first, but it was surely his strongest, and timed to coincide with a period of severe domestic disarray. As the economy worsens, the republics are growing more restive, the forces of order more demanding and the left more fractious. In the face of such pressure, Gorbachev's efforts to govern look increasingly feeble. Moreover, he has linked his fate to those who retain power but who most resist real change: Communist Party apparatchiks, industrial managers, army generals, KGB colonels...
...What are the effects of all this financial disarray on the average American...
...level bully pulpit. But Bennett left his drug-war ) post so meekly and with such meager results that some wondered if the general had gone AWOL. Bennett then backed off from his acceptance of a job as head of the Republican National Committee, throwing the party into even greater disarray...
That afternoon Thatcher gave one more bravura performance -- perhaps her last -- in rallying the numbed Tories against a motion of no confidence proposed by Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had felt obliged to respond to the spectacular disarray in the Conservative camp. In an emotion-charged atmosphere, the Prime Minister lit into Kinnock with such freewheeling enthusiasm that she brought Tory M.P.s to their feet cheering; others had tears in their eyes...
...that is so, the European economy appears much sturdier than it was during the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, when the E.C. suffered disarray. Moreover, although a severe U.S. recession would not leave Europe unscathed, the transatlantic economies are no longer so closely tied...