Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...markets, democracy and cooperation with the West. This week, when Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov arrives on his first official trip to Washington, the wreckage of that early optimism will be piled high. Yeltsin is sick, erratic and unpopular. Parliamentary elections scheduled for December are likely to give more power to communists and nationalists. The ruble's collapse last summer, Moscow's struggles with its foreign debt and vast corruption have terrified investors and left average Russians convinced that capitalism is a con game fixed by criminals in high places. The government can't collect enough taxes to keep afloat...
...nations have some clearly irreconcilable differences--Iraq and Kosovo, in particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using Russia's current weakness to reduce it to a second-rate power." The domestic backlash may mean the U.S. is on the brink of losing its once close relationship with the Russian leadership...
...asked what Hussein meant when the last message of his 47 years on the throne referred to "slandering and falsehoods" against Noor, she replies curtly, "I don't even want to talk about it." She was clearly maddened by rumors that she manipulated the change in succession to gain power...
Note: EDtv isn't copycat filmmaking, exactly. The Howard film--written, with their usual comic clarity, by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel--is a version of the 1994 Quebec farce Louis 19, le roi des ondes. But Hollywood, temporarily bereft of original ideas, has become fascinated by its power to create and corrupt. It looks at O.J., Monica, the rubes and rhubarbs on Jerry Springer and asks, with a mixture of self-accusation and self-awe, What have we done...
...PROTEIN POWER Scientists have isolated a protein called lysozyme in the urine of pregnant women that seems to be a powerful anti-AIDS agent. Though the research is still preliminary, it may explain why HIV is rarely transmitted through saliva and tears--where lysozyme is also abundant. The finding may eventually lead to new, natural therapies against...