Word: disasterous
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In a bitter public feud that is a Soviet version of the 19th century dispute between Westernizers and Slavophiles, the new Russian nationalists support the notion of derzhava, a strong state, more than they do individual rights and freedoms. They denounce Western culture, "neocolonial" business concessions and attempts to foist...
These are busy times for Rio's thieves, at whose hands the lusty Brazilian city is suffering a public relations disaster. As the tourism season reaches its peak with the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival, the number of crimes committed against foreigners has risen so high that officials have predicted...
The crash raised questions about the technology on the A320, the world's only civil airliner equipped with a fully computerized flight-control system. The critical problem may be the lack of matching electronic support systems on the ground in India, as well as in scores of other Third World...
Confronted with this disaster, Lenin zigzagged. According to the New Economic Policy inaugurated in 1921, private enterprise was once again permitted, farmers could keep or sell more of their crops, overtime pay was restored, a new state bank reformed the currency (sound familiar?). Predictably enough, improvements soon followed -- production up...
So far, the group has seen its primary mission as working within the party for change, but Shostakovsky does not rule out the possibility that the Platform might become a separate faction if reform should lag. In some ways the rector of the Higher Party School seems like a Martin...