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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enemy, the Soviet Union, has vanished. With the U.S. running a $41 billion trade deficit with Japan, the once deferential partner begins to look to some Americans like the new enemy. Pollster William Watts found that Americans rank the Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military / threat. Says Watts: "People answer that personally: Do I have a greater chance of being nuked by the Russians or of losing my job? On that basis, I'd rank Japan higher...
Team Record Point Rank Last Week Weeks Top 10 1. Minnesota (19) 22-6-0 241 2 16 2. Maine (6) 18-3-1 219 1 16 3. Michigan 20-4-3 214 4 16 4. Lake Superior State 16-6-2 166 3 16 5. Boston University 17-5-2 139 8 16 6. Wisconsin 16-8-2 109 7 7 7. Northern Michigan 15-10-3 79 5 16 8. Harvard 10-3-3 70 not ranked 2 9. St. Lawrence 14-5-2 64 6 13 10. Michigan State...
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...least likely scenario is that Algeria's three main parties will sit idle and permit the Council of State to serve out the two remaining years of Bendjedid's aborted five-year term. There is also no guarantee that the army rank and file, more than half of whom are draftees, will support the military leadership. French Arabist Francois Burgat predicts that the army maneuver will be viewed as an attempt by a select group of officers to hold on to their privileges while Algeria sinks further into economic decay. "I would not be surprised to see factions...
While 61% of the respondents said they didn't know enough about Wisians to rank them, the rest expressed no qualms about giving them a relatively low rating: 4.12 on a 9-point social scale. "Many people ranked them low because they thought they were strange sounding," says Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, adding that some of those questioned in the surveys may have assumed that Wisians hailed from a small Slavic nation in eastern Europe...