Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though it eventually garnered widespread support, the measure initially faced opposition in the House.
Last week President Jiang Zemin made a grab for imperial status by inking a World Trade Organization deal with the U.S. that will open China to free international trade for the first time in history. Along the way, 73-year-old Jiang had to move mountains of conservative opposition at...
It was a classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that...
It turns out they were right. Last week Milosevic's customs seized a convoy of trucks carrying some 350 tons of oil intended for Nis and Pirot, two opposition-run towns in southern Serbia. The convoy was stopped as soon as it crossed the border from Macedonia, and the two...
Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for...