Word: timing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...training, Luzhkov rose through the unfashionable side of the Soviet hierarchy. He was an executive in the Soviet chemical industry, not a party bureaucrat. Nevertheless, he is anything but a dry party hack. He has a fascination with Catherine the Great, for instance, and he spends his spare time raising bees at his dacha outside Moscow...
...tandem with Primakov seemed the perfect way out. Luzhkov announced that he would defer to Primakov, who at the time seemed a shoo-in for President. But the attacks continued. Instead of planning for the future, Luzhkov is now fighting for his political survival...
...decision to bring Maher into the Safra household was the biggest blunder of all. The New York Times said Maher was offered the job after he returned a camera left by a close Safra associate. Bonnant says Maher had been carefully vetted through "in-depth background checks" and a personal interview with Mrs. Safra. "The fact that Maher is unstable became apparent to us only after the accident," Bonnant told TIME. "Nothing in Maher's files showed the slightest trace of mental instability...
...ailing banker. Maher, who was reportedly making $60,000 a year at Columbia-Presbyterian, leaped at the chance. He took a leave of absence from the hospital, bade farewell to his second wife Heidi and three sons and joined Safra's staff five months ago. In that short time, he learned to love his boss and, in what Maher's lawyer calls "the sad gesture of a sick man," sent him to a smoky death...
...easy-going security policies, which, until August, did not require escorts for diplomats and other visitors. To fabricate the chair-rail molding, match the paint and install it, officials say, Russian intelligence operatives must have gained access to the seventh-floor conference room on several occasions, with sufficient time to take measurements and photographs and eventually replace the molding. And although State Department officials now believe their building is bug-free, they also thought that six months...