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...bitter that Yeltsin is trying to bring them to heel, declaring that the state is going to again assume more control of the economy. Yeltsin, whose re-election campaign was generously funded by the new oligarchs, warned that he would not tolerate "any effort by businessmen and bankers to exert pressure on the government." Yeltsin's words echoed those of Anatoli Chubais, his abrasive First Deputy Premier, who said recently that Russia could not allow "two or three or five major financial institutions" to run the state...
While he said "students should continue to exert pressure," Lee also said he believes that measures such as hunger strikes and sit-ins at other Ivies "waste time...
...unions see plenty of opportunities to reach disaffected working stiffs. For almost 20 years, wages have stagnated, held down by unending rounds of layoffs and job migration, as the global economy continued to exert its pull. Even in a booming U.S. economy with record low unemployment, labor has only recently been able to reverse this trend slightly...
...area affected. El Nino alters winds and currents throughout the tropics, producing what climatologist Nicholas Graham of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls "a weird kind of sloshing." As the trade winds slacken, he explains, they give rise to slow-moving waves that surge from west to east and exert downward pressure on the thermocline. This is the boundary layer of chilly water that separates the much colder water in the ocean depths from the sun-warmed water near the surface. Normally, the eastern Pacific's thermocline lies at a shallow depth and thus mixes with water near the surface...
What was that line Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own? "I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future." At Lilith you can sense the summer shifting, the musical center moving. Said 18-year-old fairgoer Cindy Chen of Seattle: "I don't like [alternative rock]. Too much moshing and men throwing themselves around. It's dangerous...