Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million Somalis starved to death, the international community sought consent for famine relief from the leaders of warring clans, as though they represented their people's interests. In fact, these Mad Max characters have been conducting an experiment in anarchy. They have proved that there is an even worse fate for a nation than the most dictatorial regime imaginable, and that is the absence of any regime...
...perish, and you sound like you want to drink tea!" shouts director Yevgeni Slavutin, 44. He is taking two actresses through the crucial scene in an existentialist drama, where a chance encounter between a city woman and a peasant turns into a test of strength that will decide the fate of the universe. Viewers must believe, he says, that this morality play is "their own story." Slavutin's Student Theater at Moscow State University has dramatized the most tumultuous events of the Soviet demise in the language of vaudeville sketches. His success in turning the grit and grime into lyrical...
...Mexico, zigzagged across the Southeast. High winds tossed a school bus full of children off a road in North Carolina (five kids and the driver were admitted to a hospital) and tore the steeple from a Georgia church as the congregation sang Amazing Grace. Still, in Florence, Mississippi, fate smiled on a six-day-old girl, ripped from her father's arms when a twister hit their mobile home. She was found 40 minutes later in the underbrush, wet and scratched -- but alive...
...months, Yeltsin has freed prices of consumer goods and begun selling state property into private hands. But the reforms have ripped Russia's social safety net, worsening inflation, unemployment and standards of living and even creating nostalgia for communist rule. To go forward, officials must next settle the fate of thousands of outmoded factories, where millions of workers produce heavy goods ranging from T-72 tanks to rolled steel. While the reformers want to halt government subsidies to the state- owned dinosaurs and let them die out, opponents argue that the shutdowns would devastate entire regions that totally depend...
Ultimately, the fate of Russia's economy depends on the grit of reform leaders like Yeltsin and Gaidar and the animal spirits of entrepreneurs. In the paradox-riddled new Russia, Yeltsin's struggling reforms still look like & the biggest and best risks that the country can take...