Word: rivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capacity cut at Ansio, provided that Madrid found private financing for a new 1 million-ton mill in the Basque town of Sestao, which the government had earlier planned to build itself. Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled back its original $650 million subsidy proposal for upgrading. Because that plan would feature a new 900,000-ton hot rolling mill, the Commission wrung nearly 500,000 tons of compensating capacity out of plants elsewhere in eastern Germany...
...proximate cause, as a lawyer might say, is his defiance of Russia's highest judicial authority, the Constitutional Court. But the case is much broader: it pits Gorbachev against his protege-turned-riva l-turned-successor, Boris Yeltsin; it reveals the primitive, confused nature of legality in a country that is still emerging from official lawlessness; and it dramatizes the difficulty that all ex-communist states are having in coming to grips with their past...