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...things are very different. Under Putin, Russia has used fuel rather than military power as its weapon in trying to quell attempts by Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia to wriggle free of its tutelage. The Russian authorities have hinted that countries in Western Europe ought to avoid annoying them, too. Exports of gas and oil, moreover, have balanced the Russian budget and enabled the government to take unprecedented initiatives, which Putin mentioned in his address. As billions of petrochemical dollars pour into the nation's coffers, he seeks to reinvigorate its scientific base. The down-at-heels research institutes...
...that when it works, it’s like an oil well and pumps out cash pretty well and you make up for the losses,” he said. “But you have to be in it for the long term.” To quell the doubts of the students present, Strong pointed out that he paved his own path to success. “No one in our group had a trust fund,” Strong said. “We scraped to put together everything. So it can be done...
...very strong vision of what the institute should be like,” Dunn adds, “and she was very articulate in explaining that vision to everyone.” It was that same vision and sense of purpose that helped quell the fears of concerned alumni. “I was not in favor of the merger,” Diana E. Post ’67, former second vice president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, says. “But the role that Drew Faust played was terrific. We were somewhat of an angry group...
...Kent, Ohio Four students are killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio...
...early 1990s, immigrant protests in Washington and New York City caused activists to argue that giving noncitizens the vote would help quell unrest. The idea fizzled everywhere but in Takoma Park and five smaller suburbs of Washington. For the 1993 election, noncitizens voted in Takoma Park at a 35% rate, better than the 30% for citizens. But the noncitizen figure plummeted over the following seven elections. City clerk Jessie Carpenter speculates that "early on, there was more interest because [voting] was new." She doesn't believe that resurgent concern over illegal immigrants has driven noncitizens from the polls...