Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through with the tests no matter how much pressure he gets," Crumley says. "He's in too deep. He'll have a tough time diplomatically for awhile, and some of the economic sanctions could hurt, but his [Conservative] party has such a crushing majority in both houses of Parliament that he will clearly survive politically...
...this was no ordinary summer school class. The "students" were members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, and the "teacher" was John L. Zorack. a professional lobbyist...
Last night 32 representatives from the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament arrived in Cambridge to take part in a 10-day program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...political world has begun to focus on the immensity of her achievement. How on earth did she manage to get there? She was elected to Parliament at 32 in 1958 (five years before The Feminine Mystique was published). She parried her way through the complacent, male-dominated councils of power-no woman had ever roiled those waters. Couldn't the old boys see her coming? After all, there was nothing subtle about her personality or her approach...
...seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea's parliament speaker, said during the service. The uncharismatic and inarticulate Kim Jong Il's role had been unclear since the demise of his forceful father -- the only leader North Korea had ever known...