Word: troika
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...With my first book, Troika, in which I tried to present ideals of humanism or tolerance. I am working on another book to try to examine what happened and why and also to examine our responsibility. Gorbachev, Shevardnadze and Yeltsin were fortunate in that they had an opportunity to reflect on what had happened and also to introduce reforms. We had no opportunity to prove that we too could learn from the past. But we did in fact want to move along a path toward democracy...
...major defects appear. The country's blacks would vote for a national government for the first time ever. A bicameral parliament would consist of one chamber elected by proportional representation and a second representing nine newly created regions, with the power to veto legislation. The presidency would become a troika of representatives of the three major parliamentary parties...
...gunners were three White House aides: Budget Director Richard Darman, White House chief of staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The troika treated most measures that would compel conservation as unwarranted government interference in the free market. "Watkins' proposals just got blasted by Sununu, Darman and Boskin," says a White House official. "They just tore them apart...
...Somali clans that have feuded for centuries, named hotel owner Ali Mahdi Mohammed, 52, interim President until elections could be held. But Mahdi's party, the United Somali Congress, grew angry at his appointment by a clique of elders and attacked the action as "hasty" and "unnatural." The tenuous troika could swiftly come unglued...
Although Belknap lost the championship round, she and two sisters, twin Mary Belknap of Princeton, and Lee Belknap of Franklin & Marshall, proved to be talented thorns in Harvard's side. None of Harvard's four players could defeat the Belknap troika...