Word: viktor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intimidate potential troublemakers. There weren't many. The few lucky enough to exchange their shares for cash stumbled out of the building, with cardboard boxes and plastic bags bulging with rubles, to shouts from the assembled crowd: "Is there any money left?" A few yelled imprecations on Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and central bank chairman Viktor Gerashenko, but many were simply philosophical. Mira, a chemistry researcher who earns 60,000 rubles, or $30, a month, stood in line for 24 hours, hoping to redeem 70 shares. "Hey, it's a risky game," she shrugged. And it is still being widely...
MacLeod was outside Viktor Verster Prison in 1990 when Mandela walked out to freedom, clenched fist raised high. Last December he flew with him to Oslo when Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Those were great public moments, but McLeod has some private memories too. "On a campaign trip he stopped at a home for disabled children. Some kids were singing, and instead of moving on, he went into their classroom and joined them in the song. Before he left, he singled out a little black girl and bowed so low that he could softly bump her forehead with...
...Viktor Kozlov. Igor Larionov. Vlastimil Kroupa. Sandis Ozolinsh. The list reads longer then War and Peace...
...established masters did not disgrace themselves. Viktor Petrenko, Kurt Browning and Brian Boitano had virtually lost their medal hopes two days earlier by skating weak short programs. But experience still counts: each was able to draw on reserves of seasoning in international competition to deliver a smooth, clean long routine. They placed fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively. That kind of finesse was what U.S. champion Scott Davis, 22, could not summon. Nervous and spill-prone, he wound up eighth...
President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin announced a new, conservative Cabinet that is expected to reverse or slow down many of the reforms designed to create a market economy in Russia. The country's most prominent advocate of free markets, Economics Minister Yegor Gaidar, had previously resigned, charging that the government was not committed to economic reform. After the Cabinet announcement, Gaidar's reformist comrade- in-arms, Boris Fyodorov, quit his post as Finance Minister and said the country's economic policy was taking a "turn back." Said Chernomyrdin: "The period of market romanticism has ended...