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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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As Putin basks in the afterglow of his victory, he may have forgotten some of the threats that still lurk on the path to the presidency. At the moment they seem very remote, but in Russia things change fast. There is the specter of Chechnya, where a single disaster--if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Election Surprise | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Last week that deluge came--and it wrought what may have been Latin America's deadliest natural disaster of the 1900s, a grim closing note to the continent's century. Fewer than 2,000 bodies had been recovered as of late last week, and a reliable death toll was impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Entombed In The Mud | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

That is largely why Venezuelans last year elected the populist, corruption-busting Chavez. A former army paratrooper colonel, he led a bloody but failed coup attempt in 1992 that was widely applauded by citizens fed up with cogollo rule. Many citizens complained that Chavez's government was initially slow to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Entombed In The Mud | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Einstein was aware of this difficulty in 1907, while he was still at the patent office in Bern, but didn't begin to think seriously about the problem until he was at the German University in Prague in 1911. He realized that there is a close relationship between acceleration and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

As distant cities became linked through commerce (much of it orchestrated by written contract), culture acquired a kind of disaster insurance. Any valuable meme--the concept of the chariot or of coins--would spread so fast from city to city that it could survive any catastrophes that afflicted its birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web We Weave | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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