Word: ultimatum
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...until the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia on the evening of July 23 that investors began to feel nervous. Its terms were truly formidable, particularly the demand that Austrian officials be allowed into the country to investigate alleged Serbian sponsorship of the terrorists. The government in Belgrade immediately dismissed the ultimatum as "impossible." Germany took the Austrian side; the Russians lined up with the Serbs. By Aug. 4, a little Balkan difficulty had become a full-scale European...
...financial crisis happened even faster. Within days of the Austrian ultimatum, the delicate web of international credit was torn to shreds. German trading companies ceased to remit the money they owed to brokers in London. European investors rushed to withdraw their money from New York. As nervous banks called in loans, panic selling swept the world's financial markets. But the further asset prices fell, the worse the crisis became. Securities that had been the collateral for immense pyramids of debt were suddenly unsellable. The central banks had to admit they lacked the means to stem the outflow. The only...
...leftist leader's "Bolivarian Revolution." But this blunt message was actually delivered by Rafael Ramirez, Chavez's energy minister and president of state oil company PDVSA, to company directors in a recent closed meeting captured on video and released to the media by Chavez's opponents. The apparent ultimatum poured salt on the opposition's wounds from 2003, when Chavez purged the company of dissidents after they led a devastating national oil strike. "We threw 19,500 enemies of the country out of this company," Ramirez said with remarkable candor in the video, "and we're prepared to keep doing...
...part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually considered issuing an ultimatum to Musharraf to either close down the Taliban and arrest its leaders operating from Pakistan, or face the consequences. Instead, they opted to leave the matter for President Bush to deal with at Wednesday's dinner...
...Washington wants to see a series of sanctions imposed, the scope of which will expand as long as Iran remains defiant - and the Administration refuses to discount the possibility of military action if sanctions don't force Iran to back down. But even Iran's defiance of a Council ultimatum has not raised the enthusiasm of even key U.S. allies such as Germany - let alone Russia and China - to opt for sanctions. In fact, the suggestion by U.S. officials that they may have to rely on sanctions by a "coalition of the willing" outside of the Security Council...