Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Punisher, who displayed a boorish attitude along with an admirably vicious game. He won another Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...
...term 10 months away, the Family is beset by fear of humiliation, if not prosecution. ("The Ceausescu scenario," a Kremlin staff member calls it, recalling the collapse of Romania's dictatorship in 1989.) Ironically, the gravest threat may be neither Luzhkov nor the Chechen rebels but a corps of Swiss prosecutors that has been probing allegations of financial malfeasance in the Kremlin, centering on lucrative contracts awarded a Swiss construction firm. Yeltsin is eager to ensure that whoever takes over the Kremlin next year won't be coming after him or his family. And while Putin may not survive...
August is the cruelest month in Russian politics, a month that recalls low points like the 1991 coup attempt and last year's economic collapse. But this August, Yeltsin's final one in the Kremlin, has been particularly unkind. The Swiss are still probing, while Islamic separatists drag Russia yet again into the Caucasus quagmire and regional chieftains from St. Petersburg to Tatarstan hunger for a bigger slice of the federal powers. Yeltsin's final year was supposed to be dedicated to dignified business: handing over the Kremlin to an heir sworn to reforming Russia. He may yet succeed...
...time being, acceded to the demands of the world, and the U.N., to hold a partly international tribunal of the Khmer Rouge leaders, almost everyone agrees that terms like justice and democracy are virtual luxuries in a country as desperate as Cambodia, where politics can often look like a Swiss bank account under a false name...
...York Daily News HAMM EGGS ON USA; MAKES SWISS CHEESE OF DANISH...