Word: unraveling
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...defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a humanitarian solution in Chechnya. The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Empire. The invasion of Chechnya could unravel the Russian Federation. And the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace. Is the cold war really over...
...best known for his work in trying to unravel the mysteries of four-dimensional spaces--how many are there, and what kinds there are, and understanding the kinds of things you can do when you have four-dimensional spaces," Taubes said...
...significant problem," he said in an interview last night. "It could mean they have to unravel the whole election. It could mean that those 19 votes either existed with those 19 votes either existed with Walsh at one point or they made a mistake and never had them...
This is the intriguing alternate world that Robert Harris created in his 1992 best seller, Fatherland. His dystopia is the setting for a tense political thriller. When several longtime Nazi officials turn up dead, the investigation begins to unravel a horrifying secret: the "resettlement" of the Jews during the war was just the cover story for another horrifying crime...
...City, Michigan, believes it. "I'm sliding to the Republican side because they are more for the little guy." But the new G.O.P. majority on Capitol Hill is no less beholden to the special interests for campaign funds than are the Democrats. It has been no more willing to unravel the elaborate system of entitlements like farm subsidies and Social Security and a variety of tax preferences that favor the rich and the established and make real tax relief for the working class unaffordable. Some of the G.O.P. have as great a penchant for social engineering, in the form...