Or that, in mid-1991, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi would be assassinated?
Italians responded heroically in the mid-1990s when the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, called for sacrifices to clean up the national accounts to prepare for euro membership.
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He acquired the funds through unlawful activities in the gas and energy sector in Ukraine, where he was the Energy Minister in the mid-90s, and then prime minister between 1996 and 1997.
There it could generate a massive load of spores and travel to prime soyabean acreage in the mid-west, destroying most of the American crop.
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As the Prime Minister prepares for this critical mid-term conference, I will have an opportunity to question him about subjects of concern to the West Midlands.
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In Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski, prime minister for 16 months from mid-2006, and his late twin brother Lech, who was president from 2005 to 2010, picked spectacular fights at home and abroad.
Since his prime-time talk show debuted in mid-September, NBC's already disappointing 10 p.m. audience fell another 30%.
The eight, including Robert Karofsky , Morgan's U.S. head of cash equity trading, are jumping ship after Morgan Stanley's equities group posted the best revenues since mid-2001, driven by success in Morgan's prime brokerage group.
Berlusconi, widely expected to return as the prime minister of Italy following parliamentary elections in mid-April, is calling for a group of Italian investors to make a bid for Alitalia and prevent it from falling in the hands of Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM.
He abandoned his citizenship in an emotional, sweeping open letter addressed to French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that was published in mid-December in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche.
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When Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister, sent paramilitaries to regain control of Karachi in mid-1995, they responded more brutally still.
NATO's planned action, Russia 's prime minister, Yevgeny Primakov, cancelled a trip to Washington in mid-flight.
And Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
In mid-July, a leadership race among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will begin, for the succession to the prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, who retires in September.
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In opinion polls in mid June, the prime minister's popularity sank below 20% after enjoying a brief lift following a fund-raising scandal that forced the DPJ's leader to resign.
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