Word: slide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Monday night, Macedonians stormed their parliament building and forced the president to flee. They were protesting a cease-fire he'd agreed to, at the West's insistence, with ethnic-Albanian rebels. Is Macedonia's slide into a full-blown civil war now unstoppable...
...colonial Africa more widely, there is renewed interest in the story of Patrice Lumumba. Haitian-born director Raoul Peck's powerful new film, "Lumumba," uses the story of the Congo's first and last democratically-elected prime minister to graphically and explosively explore Western complicity in the Congo's slide into chaos following its independence...
...settled on Lumumba's former aide, Joseph Desire Mobutu, who had been promoted to head of the army. Mobutu was flooded with Western money and arms, and within two months was able to out-maneuver the remnants of Congo's civil government, launching the newly-independent nation's long slide into institutional theft and ultimate bankruptcy. Lumumba was placed under house arrest, and after he escaped, was captured, tortured and turned over to Moise Tshombe who had tried to lead a secessionist movement in Katanga, the Congo's richest province. With the blessing of both Belgium and the U.S., Lumumba...
Supporters say Bloomberg has the smarts to slide up the learning curve. Perhaps. But is he smart to pattern his candidacy on Giuliani? The race is inevitably a referendum on Rudy--everyone in it is running for and against parts of him--and Bloomberg argues that the city wants a caretaker of his legacy. But the mayor has also worn people out--and severely antagonized minorities, who say his cops unfairly target them. Bloomberg told TIME he would meet with black activist Al Sharpton, whom Rudy has shunned. And his embrace of Giuliani is still gawky and schizophrenic. "Nobody should...
...Richmond businessmen William Goodwin and Beverley Armstrong rescued it from the Sheraton chain, where it was on a "continuous slide with an occupancy rate of only about 50%," according to general manager Joe Longo. Guided by early photographs, management has spent close to $15 million to restore all the rooms to their former glory--and to add a fitness center, luxury pool, glass conservatory and a new courtyard entrance. Says Longo: "Anyone visiting the hotel now would find it difficult to identify a renovation...