Word: leonids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move immediately. The forces of dissolution in the former Soviet Union are picking up startling momentum, and the West must not be lulled by the fact that for the moment, the nuclear warheads remain under the hands of relatively responsible leaders like Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk. That could change all too quickly -- and disastrously...
...candidates in an accompanying presidential election, including front-runner Leonid Kravchuk, have said the referendum will lead to full independence for the Ukraine and pledged not to sign Gorbachev's Union Treaty...
...gimpy stride of a man who had one artificial knee and was about to get another. Suddenly the old Ford Administration political warriors in that audience of more than 4,000 could remember him striding through the snows of Vladivostok in borrowed overshoes, headed for a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev...
...when it seemed so strong and monolithic. Throughout the '70s and most of the '80s, the Soviet Union was what political scientists call a "rational actor," a single entity with a clearly identified central leadership and a predictable, if often disagreeable, pattern of behavior. Sharing the planet with Leonid Brezhnev was no fun, but the West knew that by dealing with him, it could manage its relations with a nation of 280 million...
...Leonid Fridman '92, president of SONG, says Fritschel and Finkelstein should be proud. In fact, he insists that he and his fellow nerds are labeled anal "only by our enemies." The epithet has derived from "pure envy by those orally fixated Harvard students," he says, explaining, "Anal people tend to succeed in life. Others are just envious. It's nothing else...