Word: primed
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...decision was as important as the decision itself. He had the courage to face facts as they were, not as he would like them to be. And in that, Justice Powell represented the best we could hope to become: a genuinely wise man for whom balanced judgment represented a prime virtue...
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 kept them from real power but seemed prepared last weekend to surrender many of his presidential prerogatives. The communists have called for currency controls, re-nationalization and printing more rubles. On the weekend, however, Chernomyrdin went on TV to reassure Russia--and probably the West as well--that there would...
...U.S.S.R., at least partway. If he brings communists into the Cabinet in what he calls a "government of accord," he could produce no more than stalemate. But if he acts on the compromise program he approved last week, things will get worse fast. When Chernomyrdin last served as Prime Minister, he took a crucial step: he stopped financing the government's budget deficit by printing rubles, and switched to paying for it with loans from the International Monetary Fund and banks abroad. This halted Russia's hyperinflation--but created the pyramid of debt on which Moscow has now defaulted...
What faith can anyone put in Boris Yeltsin's words? Five months ago, the Russian President said Viktor Chernomyrdin was not good enough to be Prime Minister and fired him. Last week he hired him back as the "heavyweight" who could save Russia from collapse...
...core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry-go-round of Prime Ministers bespeaks the destructively ad hoc nature of the country's governance. No wonder Russians and the rest of the world were left wondering anxiously last week, Is anyone in charge here...