Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yeltsin's absence is deeply disconcerting. Despite his long history of mood swings, back pain, heart weakness and heavy drinking, his aides protest that nothing is wrong: Yeltsin, they insist, just needs a rest. Last week, however, a senior member of the new Yeltsin team, national security adviser Alexander Lebed, deviated from the reassuring official line. He told the Financial Times that Yeltsin was suffering from "moral, emotional and psychological exhaustion...
Citius. Threats of thunderstorms never materialized on Saturday night, but there was lightning on the Olympic Stadium track. Donovan Bailey of Canada won the 100 m in a world-record time of 9.84 sec., although it took three false starts and a petulant protest by Great Britain's Linford Christie, who was disqualified for two of them, before the gun sounded for good. Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running...
Julia Baron, a high school student who co-founded the Harvard Square Liberation Front to protest the bank's development plans, read from a prepared statement...
...platform, the tone of convention speakers and the choice of a pro-life Republican vice-presidential nominee. If the Dole camp does not secure an endorsement from Buchanan before the convention, he may try to overshadow the less theatrical GOP presidential nominee by leading a delegate protest, and may well damage his party in the process, says TIME's John Dickerson. "Buchanan alone in a hotel room can put on a better show than the GOP," says Dickerson. "What Dole and the Republicans don't want is the television cameras rolling away to focus on Buchanan, and media reports...
...decision and a miscalculation kept Janet Evans from equaling Bonnie Blair's American record of five Olympic gold medals. Evans failed to qualify in the 400-meter freestyle final on Monday, when she was edged out by an Irish swimmer allowed to compete at the last minute after a protest led by the United States failed. Michelle Smith, who already won the gold in the 400 individual medley, was allowed in the race by the Court of Arbitration for Sport despite missing the July 5 deadline to qualify for the games by one day. Smith qualified second of the eight...