Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At 66, Yeltsin remains the pivotal figure in Russian politics. He rules by arbitrating among competing factions in his own administration and by intimidating the opposition-controlled Duma when necessary. When ill health prevents him from performing these functions, the country stalls in neutral.
Opposition Takes Seoul Veteran dissident Kim Dae-jung is elected president of South Korea. Will fresh wind save the ailing tiger?
How quickly the world's energy systems are transformed will depend in part on whether fossil-fuel prices remain low and the entrenched opposition of many oil and electric-power companies can be overcome. The pace of change will be heavily influenced by the climate agreement that emerges in Kyoto...
Even so, Americans are unlikely to find irradiated beef in supermarkets or fast-food emporiums very soon. This is not only because of the public's almost irrational fear of anything nuclear--or the threats of stepped-up opposition by such anti-irradiation activists as the Vermont-based group Food...
So there's a lot of talk, and a lot of talk about talking. Will any of it get anywhere? The Pentagon remains skeptical about how far the relatively new and moderate Khatami can go with his olive branch, given the entrenched opposition of Iran's hard-line ruling clergy...