Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great as any in its thousand-year history. The economy is tottering like a besotted barfly. Crime and corruption are rampant, and citizens who once took pride in their nation's world-class stature now find themselves shoved to the margins of the world stage and forced to swallow a mortifying demotion from superpower to global beggar. While Yeltsin seems increasingly isolated at home behind the Kremlin and liberal politicians drone endlessly about mastering inflation and listening to the IMF, Zhirinovsky is one of the few leaders who speak in a language that average Russians can understand...
...station's history -- "Then and now, covering news like never before." Now, however, it will be covering the news as a Fox station. Many former Fox affiliates, too, are not happy at being dumped by the network they stuck with during bad times and good. "A tough pill to swallow? More like trying to swallow a football," griped Dennis Thatcher, general manager of Cleveland's WOIO-TV in the Hollywood Reporter. Murdoch's response: "We sympathize with ((the abandoned Fox stations)). But they've all done very well. Their UHF stations were built up into real assets...
This is a hard line for Muller to swallow, and he presses Riefenstahl to defend her opinions against critics who say that "Triumph of the Will" was a glorification of the Nazis...
...appointment of Albert Carnesale as provost may be the prescription that integrates the University's decentralized schools and departments, but it is a bitter pill for the Kennedy School of Government faculty to swallow...
...seems unable to stay focused for more than a couple of seconds, and can't seem to decide whether she wants to go home, find Cornelius, or run away and join a singing troupe. This confusion is not aided by the fact that the story's narrator, a French swallow named Jacquimo is incredibly annoying, and seems to pop in and out without warning or respect for what's going on. With a large number of cameos by noted personalities, it is surprising that so few of these char acters are memorable or even fun to watch. EvenGilbert Gottfried...