Word: parlous
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Naturally China is eager to reassure potential foreign investors at this parlous moment. But another steep drop of the yen against the dollar, making the renminbi less competitive, would force Beijing's hand. Even if China does go ahead, experts say, the effect would be less severe than the shock of the ruble's fall...
...AIDS, and his next mentor, Rick Inglesi, also became stricken with the disease. (He died last year.) Jess Galindo eventually succumbed to a heart attack in 1993. Finally, Rudy's brother George, 10 years his senior, contracted AIDS. The period before George's death, also in 1993, was a parlous time for Galindo. "For eight months, I drove George to the hospital every day," he says. "I carried him to the bath and changed his diapers. I got numb--to all the suffering around me, numb even to death itself. Nothing got through to me except skating in the morning...
Yeltsin hardly needed a psychic to tell him that he was under attack last week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
What is it about baseball that commands the attention of grownup men? Some might ask the identical question about our other national pastime, politics. Contributor Walter Shapiro, author of this week's lament on the parlous state of the major leagues, has had ample experience with both obsessions. He nearly won a primary for Congress in Michigan in 1972 and was later a speechwriter for President Carter. His assignments since joining TIME in 1987 have been mostly in politics, including months last year tracking Bill Clinton...
...Alexander Rutskoi, or the outspoken parliamentarian Ruslan Khasbulatov, who was elected speaker as Yeltsin's ally but now spearheads the charge to reduce the power of the presidency. So far, none has emerged as an alternative center of power, but together they act as a substantial drag on the parlous progress of reform...