Word: launching
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YEGOR GAIDAR NEVER EXPECTED TO LAST LONG IN power. Appointed to Boris . Yeltsin's government a year ago, the 36-year-old architect of Russia's economic reforms foresaw a "kamikaze" mission: launch Russia's transition to a market economy and then withdraw, battered and no doubt vilified for making his nation suffer. His prediction proved accurate last week, when he was ousted as acting Prime Minister. In his place rose fears that Russia had begun a slow retreat from democratic reform...
SENIOR RUSSIAN MILITARY OFFICERS SAY UKRAINE IS GOING all out to break the launch codes for the 1,650 nuclear warheads in its possession, especially for its 500 air-launched cruise missiles and nuclear gravity bombs. The Russians calculate that it will take the Ukrainians six months to a year to decipher the complex electronic codes. There no longer seems to be much doubt that Ukraine has decided to become a nuclear power. It has refused to go along with the START treaty and no longer allows Russian engineers to perform routine maintenance on the 130 SS-19 (six-warhead...
...comparable collection garment). Now DKNY has been expanded to include clothes for children and men. Karan also has licensing deals to make hosiery, a line of intimate apparel and eyeglasses. And a few months ago, she took the plunge into the highly competitive, celebrity-glutted fragrance market with the launch of her Donna Karan perfume...
...Clinton is to become serious about his most pressing domestic crisis, he'll launch the first genuine war on drugs ever--a battle to bring to justice all those at the top of the money chain...
Every few years, someone tries to launch a national ensemble to perform the classics, an American equivalent to London's Royal National troupe or Paris' Comedie-Francaise. But the effort has always foundered, often over questions of how to finance it or because the very scope of the ambition stirred audience expectations that no start-up group is likely to meet...