Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "On the one hand, Yeltsin will be remembered as the destroyer of communism, an inspirational leader. On the other, as a leader who failed to create the necessary institutions in his new Russian state." Still, Yeltsin's death or his political impotence would create a vacuum that would pose a further threat to Russian democracy...
...acted as a useful buffer in 35 peacekeeping missions, and more than 30 million desperate refugees have come under its wing. Pope John Paul II's Oct. 5 speech to the U.N. highlighted the organization's broad battlefront against circumstances that "offend the conscience of humanity and pose a formidable moral challenge to the human family...
Terming rebukes of the U.N. "unfair," Egypt's Ali Dessouki, dean of economics and political science at Cairo University, observes, "When the big powers are in agreement, the U.N. performs. When they aren't, the U.N. is paralyzed." Security Council members, who ensure that no Secretary-General will pose a challenge to their individual authority, could invest the office with Bismarckian clout at any time. Short of that, they could put a quietus to the outmoded system of rotating the chief's job among "nonaligned" parts of the world...
...THERE BEEN A gathering like it. This week leaders from most of the countries in the world convene to celebrate the United Nations' 50th anniversary. The proceedings began on Sunday when 191 leaders and other officials--representing enemies, allies and everything in between--stood side by side to pose for a photograph. Bill Clinton was there in the front row, with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on his left and Jiang Zemin of China on his right. Relations between the U.S. and China may be strained, but Clinton and Jiang chatted animatedly during the session. Boris Yeltsin was also...
...technical expertise currently exists in Russia to modernize outdated and shoddy Soviet-era construction. "The problem is widespread. There have been quite a number of accidents in Moscow and elsewhere involving subways, elevators, escalators, and roads. Given the lack of resources to combat the problem, Soviet-era infrastructure will pose significant risks for some time to come...