Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West has warned that printing rubles will plunge the country back into hyperinflation. If Moscow's money presses start rolling despite the warnings, investors may regard the country as beyond the pale. "Russia is headed on a path of economic introversion, even isolation," says Quinn-Judge. Unless, of course, the West decides that the geopolitical consequences of such a development are even more disastrous than Russia's current economic tribulations...
...American male is a difficult species to dress. He hates to shop. He considers it daringly fashion-forward to wear a deep blue shirt instead of a pale blue one. On casual Fridays, he may go nuts and slip on a pair of khakis. To most of his ilk, showing that you care about what you wear is European or effeminate, or both...
...horror of the Challenger explosion, human space travel became downright dull. And with the first components of the NASA-led International Space Station set to launch within months, things seemed likely to stay that way. For a public that had grown to expect great things from NASA, this was pale stuff indeed. If anything could rekindle the magic of the vigorous NASA that was--instead of the flickering NASA that is--it might be the return of the man who first lit the agency's fires...
...party to the center and preparing his people for the new century--these were seen as Clinton's key legacy items. And what of his scandal sheet, which even then was voluminous? "Our hope is that we can accomplish enough in the second term to make those allegations pale," an adviser told TIME last year. "We'd like to reduce them to a legacy footnote...
...troops in the sector. Clinton and Blair were reluctant because of the potential casualties. Chirac pointed out another problem: they could not launch such an operation without informing the Russians, for diplomatic reasons, or the Italians, whose peacekeeping troops were present in the French-controlled zone immediately around Pale. "But if we tell the Russians and the Italians," Chirac remarked, "we might as well hold a press conference!" The leaders agreed to continue the planning and intelligence gathering but postponed a final decision...