Word: seizinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He won (the first kosher transition of government since the 1940s), and then proceeded to blunder on his economic program, boldly seizing the banks and in the process terrifying the establishment. At the same time, hyperinflation raged (prices went up literally 200 million percent) and unemployment soared.
But is Bush missing the point? Sure, hundreds of millions, tens of billions of dollars could be spent vainly trying to prevent Russia from falling prey to its own darkest tendencies. Yet as real as the risk of utter failure is the possibility that history will condemn the West for...
To Saddam's discomfort, the rebels not only stood their ground but launched a furious counteroffensive in October, expanding their control far south of the 36th parallel and seizing the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah (pop. 1.2 million). Iraqi troops retreated in disorder, leaving behind long lines of tanks.
They did fail, of course, and farcically, and because of their own blunders. The collapse of the coup was inevitable only because it was so badly planned and halfheartedly carried out: had the plotters acted with half the acumen and ruthlessness of the routine Latin general or African strongman seizing...
To the merchants who line the rough-and-tumble streets of New York City's diamond district, he is known as Steve "Yorakim" -- Hebrew for green, the color of money. But to prosecutors in Manhattan, as well as Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Providence, Stephen Anthony Saccoccia is known as...