Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other way, back to the U.S.S.R., at least partway. If he brings communists into the Cabinet in what he calls a "government of accord," he could produce no more than stalemate. But if he acts on the compromise program he approved last week, things will get worse fast. When Chernomyrdin last served as Prime Minister, he took a crucial step: he stopped financing the government's budget deficit by printing rubles, and switched to paying for it with loans from the International Monetary Fund and banks abroad. This halted Russia's hyperinflation--but created the pyramid of debt on which...
...extremely cautious way he is beginning to cultivate a relationship with the press. In June he agreed to answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform: swallowtail jacket, striped trousers and starched shirt. Although his mother once mentioned that she wanted him to go to Harvard (his father went to Cambridge), he declined to say what university he wants...
...current global crisis has no precedent since the Great Depression -? and that led to World War II. As Russia melts and Asia founders, the West?s credibility is waning fast, along with some cherished ideas, both political and economic, about the way to run a modern planet. But what works must come before what should work, and as Mahathir shakes his fist at the West and talks holy war, what he may not realize is that pragmatists everywhere ?- bankers, speculators, barbarians, maybe even George Soros -? are rooting for him. If only for a little while...
...nominate their own candidate -- and the outcome of the power struggle will shape the future of Russian economic reform. "It's a serious game of chicken that could get out of control," says Quinn-Judge. And while contending factions tussle for control of the wheel, the ship is sinking fast...
...gave Wall Street another jittery ride Friday. The Dow veered wildly between a 150 point drop and a 60 point-climb, ending the day off by 114. Europe was in an ambiguous mood, too. At one point investors couldn't get their money out of stocks -- and into bonds -- fast enough. British, German and French exchanges all tumbled more than 4 percent in early trading, before word from New York helped to recoup around half those losses. Still, nobody is able to put the ruble's woes completely out of their mind. The price of gold is now the lowest...