Word: paced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed to have taken on too much in the war with his old enemies in the Duma, Russia's lower parliamentary body. The day before impeachment discussions opened, Yeltsin fired his popular Prime Minister, Yevgeni Primakov. Primakov was officially dismissed because of the President's concern about the slow pace of economic change. In fact he was dropped because he broke all the rules in his relations with Yeltsin. He was independent, he answered back, he even interrupted the President in public. This smacked of disloyalty. And in the twilight of his career, Yeltsin values loyalty above everything else...
...Still, says Dowell, "Habibie can't lose -- he's the approved candidate of the military, which keeps 238 of the 500 seats in parliament for their own appointees." The military orchestrated Suharto's ouster in the face of mass protests, and has been moving at its own pace to democratize the country. "Remember, this is a group of islands inhabited by an absolute diversity of linguistic, religious and ethnic groups bound together only by the fact that they were colonized by the Dutch," says Dowell. "The army is the only really national institution holding the whole place together." Despite...
...Historically, we don't make fast decisions," Veneziano said. "We go at a deliberate pace and Billy [Cleary] has final...
...perceived to be nothing less than a referendum on some of these pressing matters, most notably the peace process. Whereas a vote for the right-of-center Bibi is perceived to a be a vote for halting the peace process or for moving it forward at a snail's pace, a vote for the left-of-center Barak is construed as a vote for accelerating peace negotiations. However, this kernel of electoral wisdom may not have basis in actuality. If elected, Netanyahu will almost certainly make the concessions necessary for peace, albeit grudgingly. On the other hand, Barak...
...agreement ricochets around Europe, the U.S. has dispatched nearly 200 more planes to the theater--bringing the total to about 1,100--to keep the pressure on Milosevic and his people. Even after the hit on the Chinese embassy, Pentagon officials insisted they had no intention of slowing the pace of the raids. "NATO is determined to continue this campaign--and to intensify this campaign," said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon...