Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back when Bill and Boris were new in their jobs, they called each other friend and partner, and Washington placed its chips on a bet that Russia could be Poland--able to shed Marxism in short order for free markets, democracy and cooperation with the West. This week, when Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov arrives on his first official trip to Washington, the wreckage of that early optimism will be piled high. Yeltsin is sick, erratic and unpopular. Parliamentary elections scheduled for December are likely to give more power to communists and nationalists. The ruble's collapse last summer, Moscow...
...everyone is thrilled about it. Lonely-hearts clubs have been around forever, but the flashy electronic cousin of the mail-order bride catalog has led to as many as 6,000 marriages annually and raised a few eyebrows. Early this month, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sent Congress a report recommending that there be stricter regulation and that foreign women be properly warned about the potential for exploitation. Leni Marin, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco, says some matchmakers market foreign women as obedient and submissive. "If you're obedient, then you're a willing...
...women flee economic disaster in Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, the hazards work both ways. Gerry Williams, a photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, brought home a mail-order wife from Russia in November 1997. Six months later, as he was leaving for Russia to do a story on the industry, his unhappy bride bolted. "She cleaned me out," says Williams. "She used me to get to America to meet a younger, richer...
...said the advanced decay of the pipes would likely make it necessary to completely tear up the street in order to fix the problem...
...their strengths offensively is that you don't know who their big shooters are," Springer said. "When a team plays us, they'll gear up for our first line, but you have to stay so focused on Brown's lineup because they know they all need to produce in order for them to be successful...