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...face a situation in which the country is dividing up. There may be in the future no common currency, and many central banks, no culture of freedom or entrepreneurship, nothing. I do believe that it's very important to strengthen the development of a market economy and joint ventures; it's why I'm eager to be allowed to do more private-sector investment there. But even < if the European Bank is allowed to do that, no one can say that problems will be resolved overnight. It will be a very long process, and the coming years are going...
According to Williams and other union leaders, HUCTW is also looking for increases in education and child care funding, each of which were new features in the first contract, in addition to increases in health and dental coverage. HUCTW will also be looking to strengthen the joint teams, or councils, of union and management officials which meet every week to work on improving the workplace environment...
...effort to clean up Salomon Brothers' tarnished image, Warren Buffett, the Wall Street investment house's new interim chairman, has announced plans to form an in-house compliance committee, hired an outside accountant and handed down commandments designed to strengthen the firm's integrity, if not its balance sheet...
Yeltsin's retreat, however, could not stem the stampede of republics to declare independence. Fear of Russian domination is far from the only reason for this secessionist wave. Some republics may want only to strengthen their hand in bargaining on the configuration of a new, looser union. Certainly not all republics are prepared, or want, to go all the way to true independence, with their own flags, parliaments, currencies, foreign policies and seats in the U.N. Most specifically disclaim any intention of creating their own armies, other than perhaps small militias to serve as a kind of national guard...
...referendum resulted in something close to a draw. But the effect was to strengthen Yeltsin's position. A number of Gorbachev's aides, including his Vice President, Gennadi Yanayev, stepped up their efforts at engineering a rapprochement between the Kremlin and the Russian Federation headquarters, known as the White House. "Gorbachev can take a step toward Yeltsin," said Yanayev shortly after the referendum. "Actually, he has no choice...