Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former Russian prime minister Sergei V. Kiriyenko spoke yesterday afternoon about his country's economic woes and provided insight into Russian politics before a large crowd in Science Center B in an event sponsored by the Davis Institute for Russian Studies...
Kiriyenko's term as prime minister lasted from late March to late August of this year. He was replaced by the very man he ousted from office five months earlier, Viktor Chernomyrdin...
...former prime minister cited an "unscientific" poll that concluded 70 percent of the voters in one Russian city view the government as enemies of the people...
...turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
...century's biggest flop in business journalism is broadcast television. TV with a business story is like a whore with a baby: it's a cute little thing, but what the hell to do with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing...