Word: turmoils
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...spot in the Ivy League standings. They were the pre-season favorites to take the Ancient Eight title, and as of yet they haven't disappointed any one. Harvard comes into the match sporting a 2-8 record overall, 1-1 in the Ivies. Despite recent turmoil involving player discontent over Coach Gordan Graham, the Crimson has righted itself and is prepared to tame the tennis Tigers...
...television for a year now. They know that as long as the talk continues, nothing will be done to fix the economy. Moscow commentators have compared events in Russia with the corruption scandal shaking the political system in Italy. But if you ask Russians, they would gladly endure the turmoil going on in Rome -- as long as they could enjoy the Italian standard of living...
...Soviet warheads outside Russia's control. Ukraine, where 176 intercontinental missiles are based, has pledged to dismantle them under the two START treaties and sign the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. But it has taken no steps in that direction, and Foreign Minister Anatoli Zlenko said last week that the political turmoil in Russia made his country less willing to let go of its missiles. Even "more precarious" and harder to control, says Blair, are 600 nuclear bombs stockpiled in Ukraine that belonged to the former Soviet Union. Ukraine wants security guarantees and aid from the U.S. and Russia before it agrees...
...would it be safe for Yeltsin to leave Russia then, amid the turmoil preceding the April 25 referendum? Could he even survive until the vote? The legislative bodies, packed with industry bosses, collective-farm managers and apparatchiks elected under the old communist system, had no intention of going quietly into what their Bolshevik forebears called the dustheap of history. The Supreme Soviet began meeting Sunday afternoon to discuss Yeltsin's actions, while the Congress of People's Deputies was likely to be called into its own session starting Wednesday...
...possible. Never before has a nation with such a despotic history as Russia's transformed itself into a multiparty democracy with a market economy. Yeltsin and his team of shock therapists have been at the task since the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, producing few successes and much turmoil, hardship and anxiety. As the pain mounted, Khasbulatov and the President's other conservative antimarket, anti-Western rivals muttered and threatened, then finally struck...