Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It was in Russia that Clinton faced his trickiest challenge. A communist victory in the June presidential election could be a disaster for Russia, the world and Clinton. It would inevitably touch off Republican charges of "losing Russia." Yet what could Clinton do to help President Boris Yeltsin, who is...
The WHO is drafting guidelines that would, among other things, limit gifts to medications that are included in essential-drug lists and that would not expire for at least 12 months. Some in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry are lobbying for exceptions. A consultant has warned ominously that the guidelines might...
On one side, you have a rigid socialist regime with a failing centrally-planned economy and a totalitarian iron hand manipulating the whole nation at will; on the other side, you have an open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and...
At home it would require the use of force, real coercion, for the government to renationalize industries, reimpose price controls and take over the banks. It is not obvious that a Zyuganov government would have that kind of power and authority. "I just happen to think it's impossible," says...
"It hasn't been us, and we hope it will continue not to be us," says Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser. "We've known increased standards were coming for many years, but we haven't been waiting for a disaster to happen."