Word: forcefullness
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But Chubais pulled together a new team of savvy technocrats, businessmen and pollsters. More important, he established a strong working relationship with Tatyana Dyachenko, Yeltsin's forceful daughter, and tapped what an associate says were "unlimited" supplies of private-sector financing. Yeltsin's victory was a brilliant turnaround, even though...
Nelson insists their organization is laid-back, despite its forceful presence.
The crisis has its immediate roots in the ethnic convulsions that swept over Rwanda in 1994, when Hutu extremists butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, hacking many of them to death with machetes. Fearing Tutsi revenge, 1.7 million Hutu then fled their homes. Those who eventually clustered in Zaire's...
Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, however, protested that the idea was far too complicated. He was the most persistent and forceful advocate of the idea that finally won: a 15% across-the-board cut in income tax rates over six years. The idea was so simple that a button touting it...
Though respected as a forceful advocate for the poor, minorities and women, the freshman Jackson-Lee was undercut by the Supreme Court's June decision to invalidate her district. She is expected to win this race to keep Barbara Jordan's old seat, but Jackson-Lee sees the high court...