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...VACUUM. a) Household appliance or b) space between boss's ears during discussion of maternity leave...
...special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule...
...have been as hard hit as Yuhuan county, where at least four riots occurred in the space of five days last week?despite there being no confirmed SARS cases in the region. For weeks, Yuhuan villagers had to rely solely on inadequate central-government information about SARS, leaving a vacuum in which unsubstantiated local scuttlebutt spread wildly. Beijing and Shanghai officials have efficiently blanketed their cities with SARS information for weeks now. But it was only after the riots started last week that Yuhuan cadres bothered to fully educate their villagers, handing out pamphlets and putting up banners proclaiming...
...take the consumer for granted--and for an awful lot of money," says Dan Mica, president of the Credit Union National Association, the industry's largest trade group. "They are tacking on fees and have less interest in serving small businesses than they used to. We're filling the vacuum...
...forward, posing as guardians of the peace. They would urge calm, and dispatch letters to local politicians and foreign diplomats offering their "assistance" against the wave of "terrorism." The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Slobodan Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule. That's the picture police in Belgrade painted for Time last week as they wrapped up their investigation into the Djindjic murder and prepared for a trial that begins in July. It's an apocalyptic scenario, perhaps, but the plan stood a 50% chance...