Word: romania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading pollster. "They're playing checkers--they're living one day at a time." With the end of Yeltsin's second term 10 months away, the Family is beset by fear of humiliation, if not prosecution. ("The Ceausescu scenario," a Kremlin staff member calls it, recalling the collapse of Romania's dictatorship in 1989.) Ironically, the gravest threat may be neither Luzhkov nor the Chechen rebels but a corps of Swiss prosecutors that has been probing allegations of financial malfeasance in the Kremlin, centering on lucrative contracts awarded a Swiss construction firm. Yeltsin is eager to ensure that whoever takes...
While the worst growing pains seem to be over, complaints about service continue. Mark Meyer, a lawyer and constant cell-phone user from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., spends three months a year in Romania on business. He has two cell phones--one from AT&T for the States, the other from Romanian GSM carrier Connex. "You never lose a signal in Bucharest," says Meyer, "and the signal is always clear." But in New York, he can name five different spots along his 26-mile commute from Westchester to Wall Street where his phone will go dead every time. "It's maddening...
...result, Tsoukalidis has already returned to Greece, and Dinu may be forced to return to Romania in March, when his visa expires...
...result, Tsoukalidis has already returned to Greece, and Dinu may be forced to return to Romania in March, Mr. Dinu has work authorization through mid-March of 2000," Kelston said, "He has nine months from the time of graduation in which he can stay in this country and receive practical training...
...result, Tsoukalidis has already returned to Greece, and Dinu may be forced to return to Romania in March, when his visa expires...