Word: powerfully
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...West cheered a second great victory over communism, the oligarchs got even richer and a lot more powerful ? and Boris Yeltsin?s political survival became intimately linked with their fate. What the current crop of financial scandals points to is that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...
...problem originated with the way privatization was handled, there?s not much that can be undone now," says TIME correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "So Washington is trying to weather the corruption storm and focus on the priorities of stopping nuclear weapons proliferation and ensuring that fringe elements don?t take power...
Ford said the MBTA will rely on two jet engine generators in South Boston as sources of power to keep 80 percent of its system running indefinitely should it break down. Fuel trucks and 300 buses will provide additional support...
...lights will be on on Jan. 1, 2000, and the gas will be flowing into your homes," said Eric Delacoste of the Cambridge Electric Company. He added that all of their power plants would be running at 150 percent capacity on December...
While Mugabe's government came to power promising change and even now is considered one of the most advanced in Africa, it has attracted criticism from other governments for corruption and heavy-handed governance...