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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a front-runner," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. The result, in which upward of 70 percent of voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave is based almost entirely on the war in Chechnya, where Moscow's troops have taken control of much of the rebel republic while suffering minimal losses. But the Chechen guerrilla forces have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Vote Puts Putin on Presidential Track | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...though things may have changed a bit, it's still one of the friendliest places around. And maybe to keep it that way, Midwesterners like to perpetuate the hickville image...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, | Title: Between Two Coasts, A Hospitable Heartland | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...bungled hit has had consequences far beyond those envisioned by its planners. Relations between Israel and Jordan, the Jewish state's friendliest neighbor, were nearly severed by an enraged King Hussein. The U.S., similarly, was angered by Israel's foray just as Washington was delicately trying to restart negotiations with the Palestinians. What's more, the Israelis, to repair the damage they'd caused, were compelled not only to provide an antidote to save the life of the man they had meant to kill but also to release from one of their prisons Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HIT GONE WRONG | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...Parsifal Di Casa Netzer, a five-year-old standard schnauzer, had been judged best-in-show at the 121st Westminster Kennel Club show, the second oldest sporting event in North America. (The Kentucky Derby is older by one year.) For two days every year, Madison Square Garden becomes the friendliest place in the world. Last week some 2,500 dogs, representing 156 breeds, descended upon the Garden, each hoping to work its way through the canine justice system: best of breed, best of group, best-in-show. Pa was one of the favorites, having defeated 93,725 other dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: A DOG HAS HIS DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...professors I have had here, he was the friendliest and most accessible. He took time to get to know his students," said Paul D. Hodgdon '97, a student in Price's junior seminar Government 90hd: "Elite Decision-Making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Professor Price Dies After Falling | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

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