Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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 he once scornfully offered of his rival Mikhail Gorbachev: "a lover of half steps and half measures...
...substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came to be known as Governor Gloom...
Contrary to the doom and gloom prophesied by the traditional pessimists, what I witnessed firsthand during my short stay in the Holy Land revitalized my own hopes for the future. The smiling faces of Israeli children on beaches their parents defend hourly belie the ominous predictions of out-of-touch journalists. Netanyahu's victory was a victory for anyone who has chosen to put their faith in security as the most important stepping stone to lasting peace and sovereignty not just for Israelis, but for all peoples in the Middle East. Netanyahu gives us faith that a new generation...
...Boston, thanks to its unparalleled system of higher education, continues to successfully pull itself out of the early 20th century gloom. Today companies like Rathyeon, Digital and Fidelity--out growths of institutions like MIT, Harvard, Boston College and Boston University--are the major employers in the metropolitan Boston area. In an era when corporations can easily pick up their operation and move across borders, the educated work force has rooted industries in the Boston area...
...fate of democratic reform into a two-man race with his main challenger, Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov. After weeks of extraordinary, exuberant stumping and an unprecedented media blitz, Yeltsin the populist politician has been reborn, while some of the gas has gone out of the stolid Zyuganov's gloom-and-doom campaign. With nine other candidates in the race, neither of the front runners is expected to win outright--50% plus one--in the first round, but there is little doubt that they will face each other in a runoff in July...