Word: vip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonvoting member of the Politburo and prime minister of the federation, hardly seems the < stirring leader needed to carry out his boss's vision. When Vlasov delivered an hour-long report last week, it was so plodding that not even Gorbachev seemed to be listening. He sat in a VIP box and conferred with his senior advisers...
...Polhill spent most of the week alone in the VIP suite at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, where freed hostages first go. The professor was severely undernourished, and his muscles were wasted from lack of exercise. On the flight to Wiesbaden, Polhill exulted at seeing the sun for the first time after 1,182 days in windowless rooms, and he spoke in a hoarse whisper; doctors in the U.S., where he arrived at week's end, found a growth on his vocal cords. Still he displayed a lively wit and undiminished anger at his captors, which...