Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moscow has had no functioning government since Aug. 23, when President Boris Yeltsin dismissed his young Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko. His successor, acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, is under heavy pressure from the communist-dominated Duma. Parliamentarians are pushing aggressively for a greater say in running the country. Yelstin had...
Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign, demanding a greater share of power and disdainfully offering the President guarantees that he would not be prosecuted or harassed once he left office. More troubling still, the communists...
These are vulnerable to tax-loss selling. Consider dumping them now. You'll realize a loss you are prepared to take anyway, but you'll give yourself the chance to buy the stock back for less later on, though you must wait 30 days or lose the tax break.
Sitting on the set of Larry King Live on Monday night, I waited nervously for the President to address the nation. I had suspected for months and believed for weeks that Bill Clinton had had a sexual relationship with "that woman," Monica Lewinsky, and now, fresh from the grand jury...
Since January, I've been asked often if I was surprised by allegations that the President had an affair with a 21-year-old intern. I wasn't. After all, as the Clintons are quick to point out, they've been accused of everything from adultery to drug running to...