Word: toilworn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic Gorbachev performance. After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators. Late on Friday afternoon Deputy Yuri Golik, a close Gorbachev ally, proposed, without prior discussion, a resolution that would give the President almost total power to overhaul the enfeebled economy by decree...
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