Word: romania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish refugee from Romania, Wisse attended an officially Protestant high school, going to the mandatory Christmas assemblies and saying the Lord's Prayer every morning. Yet the Montreal of her youth was also a Yiddish cultural mecca, after Jewish immigrants settled in Canada in the 1920s and again after World...
...could afford. The European satellites were too, so Gorbachev told their chiefs that Soviet tanks would no longer keep them in power. That started a chain reaction that left both sides dumbfounded. By the end of 1989, the Soviet bloc had dissolved: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Romania all installed noncommunist regimes. Even then, nobody would have guessed that in another two years the Soviet Union itself would shatter into 15 pieces. But it was already obvious that the world was entering a strange new era: only one superpower; no cold...
Cristiana Paul had a weight problem. Not drastic, but nagging nonetheless. Born and raised in Romania and trained as an engineer, Paul moved to Los Angeles in 1984, and like all good Angelenos, she decided to become a model. Paul was already svelte and stunning, but despite a near maniacal exercise regimen she couldn't shed a few stubborn pounds. So she abandoned her strict fruit-and-vegetable diet, cut back on carbohydrates and gobbled proteins. Before long, she had dropped the extra ballast and was turning away modeling offers...
...ruled that only three new countries will be admitted to NATO in the first round, though others are to come in later. The welcome mat is out for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. But France, Italy, Canada and other members of the alliance were pushing the candidacies of Romania and Slovenia, and in some conference rooms charges of "American arrogance" echoed. The U.S. will prevail, of course, because such decisions must be unanimous...
After the enlargement decision was made, many capitals thought the first group admitted should be big enough to be impressive. They wanted to add Romania and Slovenia to the three everyone agreed on. Clinton said no. He may be worried about presenting the Senate with a bigger bill than they will want to pay, or he may be concerned about the "Slovenia? Where's that?" factor. French President Jacques Chirac was particularly eager to see Romania gain entry. In a tete-a-tete with Clinton at the Denver economic summit two weeks ago, Chirac made a strong plea for both...