Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Olympics this year were a study in perseverance, from the thousands who breathed new life into a haunted party to the athletes who stayed focused amid bomb threats in a city that had waited forever to show off the New South (a phrase coined in 1886). As the Centennial...
While some government officials insist such predictions are overly pessimistic, Andrei Illarionov, director of Moscow's Economic Analysis Institute, a reform-minded think tank, told a press conference last week that the coming year would be a tough one for the Russian economy. "What is in store for us," he...
Feuding aides and economic gloom are what helped wear down even a healthy Boris Yeltsin. Outstanding when faced with an all-or-nothing crisis, he has consistently been baffled and demoralized by the drudgery of daily governance. Now, in his twilight years, he has come eerily to resemble the description...
China has been adamant in swapping jobs for market access, even though this violates a 1992 trade agreement. Since 1994, for instance, American-built cars have faced illegal 100% duties in China, which caused a reduction in sales from 40,000 in 1993 to 4,700 last year. In response...
When faced with a crisis of any kind, and especially with the threatened death of a loved one, people rediscover spirituality with amazing speed. Now Western science is catching up to what some of us have always known: we are not sufficient in ourselves; prayer really does change things. Science...