Word: marginalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the Deputies obeyed, but enough bucked Gorbachev to elect Yeltsin by a four-vote margin in the 1,060-member parliament. "Electing Yeltsin was the only way to preserve the trust of the people," said Moscow Deputy Viktor Shinkaretsky. "This buys us some time." Others blamed Gorbachev for bungling the campaign by attacking Yeltsin so much. "We're responsible to the voters, not to Gorbachev," said Vladimir Ispravnikov, a Deputy from Omsk. "When the party apparatus leans on Yeltsin, it only helps...
...Paris to copy documents left in the rooms by visiting businessmen, journalists and diplomats. These "bag operations" first came to the attention of the U.S. Government in the mid-1980s. One U.S. executive told officials about a trip to Paris during which he had made handwritten notes in the margin of one of his memos. While negotiating a deal with a French businessman, he noticed that the Frenchman had a photocopy of the memo, handwritten notes and all. Asked how he got it, the Parisian sheepishly admitted that a French government official had given it to him. Because of such...
...that wasn't nearly enough to hold off the eventual national champions, who cruised by the Crimson, 26-4, on Friday night. Harvard held San Diego close in the first quarter and trailed by only a 6-2 margin at the first intermission...
...Saturday, sixth-seeded Penn State will travel to Philadelphia to take on third-ranked Temple, with the winner to face the Crimson. Harvard knocked off Temple this season, 7-6, but the Nittany Lions trimmed the Crimson by a 7-6 margin in last year's NCAA finals...
...state money, media and organizational apparatus. To offset those advantages, six opposition parties and groups have agreed to field common candidates in the elections. Even if Mongolia's first democratic exercise is fair, local and foreign observers in Ulan Bator predict that the Communists will win by a comfortable margin. Still, it would seem that the days of absolute rule are over...