Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia back in May, he wasn?t supposed to have much to do except cover Boris Yeltsin?s ample backside and make the usual feeble attempts at halting Russia?s economic dissolution. Suddenly he?s got a war to win, and it?s a war that Stepashin has lost before. In Dagestani, a provivce that borders on Chechnya in Russia?s mountainous (and mostly Muslim) north Caucasus region, a rebel force is trying to join its Chechen neighbors in achieving a de facto independence from Russia and becoming part of Chechnya. Russian forces have begun attacking the rebels ? pooh-poohed...
After a hunt that lasted over twenty years and spanned hundreds of miles, Harvard researchers have re-discovered the long-lost manuscripts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son of composer Johann Sebastian Bach...
...collection had been moved from its home in the Berlin Sing-Akademie museum to a remote location in the German province of Silesia for safekeeping during World War II. But after the war, Silesia became part of Poland, and scholars lost track of the collection...
...story was it had been destroyed, it's lost, and the other, that it had been taken by the red army to the Soviet Union, and nobody knows where it is," said Wolff, who is also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...thing you can say about the Kremlin ? it hasn?t lost its sense of humor. Just when you thought Russia?s economy was down the toilet, the government on Thursday announced a $51 million budget surplus. Yes, surplus. That bit of statistical good news ? which the government attributes to more efficient tax collection ? happened to coincide, as good news usually does, with decisions by the IMF and other creditors to extend a little leeway on debt repayment. "Different ministries are already quarreling about how real the surplus is because the budget was calculated at a much higher ruble-to-dollar...