Word: stall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...painful side effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia's subsidized, militarized economy into a free market. One form of unemployment the Deputies particularly oppose is their own; they have no enthusiasm for new elections in which they might lose their seats...
...MUCH HAVE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS had to do with the decline in union membership to 16% of the work force, the lowest in 50 years? Plenty, say labor leaders: unfriendly Administrations have enabled employers to stall off union- representation elections for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress...
...public announcement in order to justify not releasing the Tailhook findings. The unreleased report on drunken aviators molesting women at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention is devastating: it's expected to recommend courts-martial for at least 12 senior Navy officers. Pentagon officials (with White House blessing) want to stall the findings until after March 23 -- when the defense budget goes to Congress...
Although Elmendorf said he is optimistic that the taxes will not stall the upswing, Weitzman said that no one can really predict the long-term effects of the raises...
...clothes to computers, was pillaged. After the rampage, foreign businessmen -- and foreign money -- fled the city. The economy collapsed. Since the government now has almost no money to buy supplies and spare parts from abroad, all the services that make urban life bearable are breaking down. Buses and trains stall, fuel supplies are uncertain, electricity is unreliable and water quality is in jeopardy...