Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barely a step above the denizens of the streets are those who haunt Moscow's hard-luck flea markets. At these outdoor bazaars, the bottom of the city's economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
Maybe not, but cracks in the foundations of these economies could yet cause shudders in the nascent recovery. In Japan deflation continues to haunt the economy as banks struggle to cope with swollen portfolios of bad debts. Many Japanese firms still suffer as well from excess capacity and bloated payrolls. In Europe high interest rates, fueled by the bond market's fear of an outbreak of inflation, could still put the brakes on the recovery...
...goal of Straight Talk is to create a new Prudential self. But so far, the Straight Talk campaign is suffering from the Mrs. Macbeth problem. Every time the new self is trotted out, the sins of the old self come back to haunt | it. One ad had to be scrapped after a former Prudential client recognized the straight talker as the same broker who had sold him a limited partnership. The ex-client got mad all over again and filed a new lawsuit. Then a second ad was scrapped to protect yet another broker from being sued...
...Rwanda catastrophe was more than a simple tribal meltdown, it also showed signs of being the kind of conflict that scholars warn will haunt the world for decades to come. These wars are not started by statesmen or fought by armies or ended by treaties. The tribal skirmishes recall the wars of the Middle Ages, when religion and politics and economics and social conflicts all messily intertwined...
...They're finished," said hospital administrator Gerard Van Selst as he boarded an armored Belgian convoy. "A huge number will be killed." One American sheltered a fugitive opposition politician and helped him to safety. But there were too many others he could not help. "I saw scenes that will haunt me for the rest of my life," he said. "Bodies. Piles of bodies, women and children. Just piles of them...