Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quid pro quo for getting the West out of a messy situation in Kosovo by brokering a peace deal," says Meier. "Whether or not the IMF and other Western institutions come through with money for Russia depends a lot less on the outcome of a Duma vote on economic reform than on the outcome of the Kosovo conflict." In other words, the most important Russian negotiators in the bid to get Western financial aid may be the ones in armored personnel carriers at Pristina Airport...
...Olympic Committee is an organization that values inertia above all. Addressing a committee gathering in Seoul, South Korea, Juan Antonio Samaranch firmly announced he would stay at the helm of the scandal-plagued organization at least until his term expires in 2001 and declared: "We say no to hasty reforms to please our critics." Samaranch said the IOC had already carried out many of its promises, including a housecleaning of 10 members accused of accepting improper inducements from Salt Lake City organizers. As for further changes, he said he would await an internal reform panel?s recommendations due by year...
Richard Pankhurst, whom she married in 1879, when she was 20 and he was 40, was a brilliant lawyer, selflessly dedicated to reform, who drafted pioneering legislation granting women independent control of their finances. Emmeline bore five children but lost two sons, and when Richard died suddenly in 1898, she was left to bring up her children alone, with no private means...
...hard today not to sigh at the ardor of her hope in what voting could achieve, not to be amazed at the confidence she showed in political reform. But heroism looks to the future, and heroes hold to their faith. Joan of Arc was the suffragists' mascot, Boadicea their goddess, and Mrs. Pankhurst the true inheritor of the armed maidens of heroic legend...
...believed that physical laws are immutable, applying to all things in nature. As a result, he regarded certain human values--such as liberty and the respect for individual dignity--as inviolable and universal. It is not surprising that in China today, many of the most outspoken advocates of political reform are members of the scientific and academic communities. They are all the progeny of Andrei Sakharov...