Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country's economic crisis. The Duma on Monday rejected Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister, while Boris Yeltsin has already accepted a lame-duck presidency by agreeing to relinquish many of his executive powers. That leaves the tycoon kingmaker Boris Berezovsky as the most powerful man in Moscow, but the latter-day Rasputin is not on Clinton's itinerary...
...buying until the TV stock gurus tell us some market "bottom" has been reached. We can all sit in cash and never take any risk. Or we can buy companies we've researched and believe in that are pulled down by panicky selling of the overall market. The latter is what's called investing...
...that victory still in mind, the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's publicity department has tagged the posters of their latest production, Slavs!, with a prominent line that states, "From the Author of Angels in America." Tourists, summer school students and other people who were not around to witness the latter play's performances last fall may or may not be drawn into the theater by that information. However, those of us who were here and who were impressed will probably at least think about going, if we haven't bought tickets already...
...extremely different subject matters--Angels deals with the pain of the AIDS epidemic combined with the fear of the millennium’s end; while Slavs! pokes fun and raises questions about the state of the former Soviet Union during the late '80s and early '90s. In addition, the latter play doesn't contain the painful and poignant emotional turbulence that the former is famous for. To try to compare them any further would be useless. But rest assured that, if you were genuinely moved by the powerful presence of Angels last fall, you will probably enjoy the bizarre Slavs...
...from numbers 1 to 42. Matching all but the Powerball yields a $100,000 prize. Matching the Powerball number itself, but no other numbers, wins $3. Players can opt to chose their own numbers or purchase "quick pick" tickets with computer-generated selections. The Lucky 13 always went the latter route. But a former group member named Robert Kronk made the ill-fated decision just three months ago to drop out of the group because he wanted to choose his own numbers. Last week Kronk, an optimist about human nature, told reporters, "I'm sure they'll take care...