Word: victor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Boris Yeltsin, calling the currency crash "a threat to our national security," fired acting Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin, a critic of easing monetary policy, and asked parliament to dismiss central bank chairman Victor Gerashenko -- who resigned, but only after a personal meeting with Yeltsin. Considered by many an obstacle to reform, Gerashenko had balked at spending scarce hard-currency reserves to prop up the ruble as it went into free fall...
...next few weeks parliament must still consider the fate of Gerashenko and vote on the economic stewardship of Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In the meantime, the Russian public has already made its views known: as of last week, half the population is thought to be holding savings in U.S. dollars rather than rubles...
...worst time to work is right before closing, because everyone is in here and they all want to check out books," says Manuel J. St. Victor '95, who works at the Cabot circulation desk...
...year is 1991. Victor "Santa Claus" Kiam is making a mockery of professional football. He's wrestling with his G.M. in the press box, he's making light of a sexual harassment case against his high school football team, and he's hired everybody's surrogate grandfather as a coach...
...return to Tombstone of Doc Holiday (Victor Mature) begins the second chapter of this film. A dichotomy is quickly established between Earp and Holiday, the former calm and collected, the latter angry, passionate and dying from consumption. At first, the relationship between the two main characters is tense and strained, with both of them jockeying for position. Wyatt, still unsure about who killed his brother, suspects the Clanton family led by Pa Clanton (Walter Brennan). They represent the bad element of the town. Forced to frequent a Mexican bar, the Clantons are obvious outsiders, whereas Doc Holiday who comes from...