Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophisticated world traveler who shows presence of mind in the White House or the Vatican; Yeltsin is the blunt- spoken man of the people, comfortable mixing with workers on a shop floor. The fact that the power balance has shifted in Yeltsin's favor and made Gorbachev the junior partner does not change the basic formula...
...snooty white boarding school, providing the occasion for a predictable batch of racial wisecracks. ("I am only reluctantly conforming to federal guidelines," sniffs the headmaster to his token hire. "Shoeshine?" offers the teacher.) NBC's Pacific Station pairs a hard-boiled police detective (Robert Guillaume) with a flaky new partner (Richard Libertini), who brews herb tea and spouts New Age psychobabble. Only the two stars' professionalism keeps this from being a match made in hell...
...hours in a police cruiser also build a special camaraderie. "He's cool, he's O.K.," said Mike of his police partner as Coleman, pistol drawn, checked out the open door of a warehouse where a burglar alarm was ringing. "He's like a kid brother," says Coleman. "There's nothing we won't talk about -- drugs, booze, sex -- and if he gets in trouble, he'll have to deal with...
...chair of the American College Health Association's Task Force on AIDS in Charlottesville, Va. "I suspect any parent or teacher would point to peer pressure, or teens' sense of invulnerability," he says. But there are other important factors. A teenage girl may be too embarrassed to ask her partner to wear a condom. Or a youth might not want to buy condoms because it makes him feel guilty for having sex. Many prefer not to question their partners' sex practices, as a sign of trust. And finally, Keeling says, the mixed messages that teenagers receive can be deeply confusing...
...balance between them is already clear. Yeltsin is the senior partner. With the hard-liners in flight, the union treaty they conspired to head off will turn the country into a confederation, a "Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics." The power to govern will flow out from the central offices in Moscow to the parliaments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and especially to the largest of all, Yeltsin's Russia. "Gorbachev is back in power," says Alex Pravda, a Soviet expert at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, "but the presidential office is shrinking under his feet...