Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years with the overwhelming chore of their first move-in, Sigma Chi was contributing to an often shaky sense of community on campus. Since the administration has failed to build a secure social environment or community spirit, they should not prevent other who wish to try to fill the vacuum...
...spinning in and out of the government's revolving door have a firm plan to quell the economic and political chaos. And even if one did, he probably could not muster the political support to make his program stick. There is, at the core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry-go-round of Prime Ministers bespeaks the destructively ad hoc nature...
Take me to your leader. That's the worst possible thing President Clinton could ask when he arrives in Moscow Tuesday, because Russia's political leadership is no closer to filling its power vacuum than it is to resolving the country's economic crisis. The Duma on Monday rejected Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister, while Boris Yeltsin has already accepted a lame-duck presidency by agreeing to relinquish many of his executive powers. That leaves the tycoon kingmaker Boris Berezovsky as the most powerful man in Moscow, but the latter-day Rasputin is not on Clinton's itinerary...
...political vacuum only compounds the financial crisis: While the government is no longer making any effort to defend the plummeting ruble and frenzied bankers go after dollars to protect their personal fortunes, Chernomyrdin looks set to simply ban trading in foreign currencies. The reinstated prime minister hopes to straddle the mutually exclusive demands of the Communists, whom he aims to bring into government, and the IMF, which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge...
...Russian markets is minimal, the country's woes hit Europe hard, and that comes home to America. Not to mention the chilling prospect of the crisis toppling Yeltsin's government and bringing to power a host of ex-Communists with itchy trigger fingers. It's not yet time to vacuum out the ol' fallout shelter -- but if you're looking for some kind of refuge from this economic Chernobyl, Baumohl recommends bonds. "Foreign markets are getting hit hard, and foreign investors are going to look at U.S. Treasury bonds as a safe place...