Word: stage
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...latest crisis, provoked by the firing of popular prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, ends the president's eight-month cease-fire with the Communist-controlled parliament and sets the stage for a fierce political battle as his second -- and supposedly final -- term in office draws to a close. The legislature's term expires in December, emboldening it to face down a president whose autocratic constitutional power includes the right to summarily dissolve parliament and call new elections. "For the Communists, it's convenient to have a confrontation with Yeltsin in which he dissolves the Duma," says Zarakhovich. "It will make them...
...regular tumor detection right now there is a lot of misdiagnosis because you can't diagnose the early stage of the tumor growth," said Tung. "We've developed contrast agents so hopefully we can detect the signal from the tumor, and detect the tumor, earlier...
...experiment marks the first time that anybody has imaged enzyme activities on living creatures, said Weissleder, and this sets the stage for taking their new knowledge into clinics for use on humans...
...regular tumor detection right now there is a lot of misdiagnosis because you can't diagnose the early stage of the tumor growth," said Tung. "We've developed contrast agents so hopefully we can detect the signal from the tumor, and detect the tumor, earlier...
...gravity -- but that's not borne out by his choice of successor: "The new appointment as prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, is a man without any economic background but with a well-deserved reputation for bungling," says Quinn-Judge. "The Duma is unlikely to approve Stepashin, and that sets the stage for another period of prolonged political paralysis in Russia." One Yeltsin objective may, however backfire: The ailing president had hoped that by firing Primakov he could undercut the prime minister's presidential aspirations in the 2000 election; but Yeltsin's approval ratings are so low that he may have only...