Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side of the IMF debate is Marshall I. Goldman, assistant director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, who has testified before Congress and debriefed the National Security Council before President Clinton's Moscow trip...
Financial leaders in Washington and on Wall Street regard Cardoso as their best hope to preserve the credibility of the capitalist discipline they've sold to emerging markets during the past decade, a discipline now crumbling from Moscow to Malaysia. "They're seeing Brazil's struggle as a crucial stand for the orthodox model," says Emily Alejos, vice president for emerging markets at BEA Associates investment firm in New York City. And because it is the linchpin of the dynamic South American market, Alejos adds, "letting Brazil succumb to the global contagion would mean Argentina, Chile and other Latin American...
...those years as I Married a Communist. Nathan, for example, learns from Murray that Ira was a victim of the mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates of Moscow. On the other hand, the forces that destroyed him were not particularly admirable either, beginning with an ill-chosen wife and her vindictive daughter. But even they are not really, in Roth's novel, ultimately culpable. At the end, Nathan stares at the night sky and imagines the stars...
Russia has developed an immunity to the colds of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. Once, Moscow's political machinery would freeze up every time Yeltsin sneezed. Now, in a sure sign of the ailing president's ebbing power, the capital is just ignoring his latest health problems. "Even if Yeltsin were forced out due to illness, that would no longer make a difference to Russia's political direction," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The currency markets indicated today that they don't care, and Yeltsin's approval rating now stands at 2 percent, compared with an 89 percent disapproval...
...NASA the only thing it has left: allocation of astronauts. For a mere $60 million, NASA chief Daniel Goldin told members of Congress in a letter printed in the New York Times Monday, America will get "up to 100 percent of the research time previously allocated to Russia" -- and Moscow's space program effectively becomes a subsidiary of Washington...