The risk of East West confrontation has faded away with the disappearance of the Eastern bloc.

The abolition of uncertainty abolishes the need for moral rules.

The one thing that could precipitate the demise of the dollar would be reckless economic mismanagement in the US.

The ideological vacuum left by the death of Marxist orthodoxy was filled with nationalism.

The prospect of its eventual demise is not a good reason to wait for some theoretical ideal of global balance to materialize.

It is a hatred that did not disappear with Nazism, and that one can still, 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, glimpse in terrifying manifestations.

Indeed, with words like these, Kolakowski, with Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, and other kindred souls, ultimately did as much as the trillions of dollars spent on weapons to speed the demise of the totalitarian Soviet empire.

Roberts also stressed the use of change management tools to proactively address resistance to change a factor linked to the demise of many reengineering initiatives that looked good on the drawing board.

Putin s four hour news conference in December recalled nothing so much as Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu s demise at a staged mass meeting in 1989, when he was confronted by heckling and protests.

Ms. Morvai said she would appreciate the delegation elaborating on the Crisis Group mentioned in connection with the impoverishment of the soil and asked whether there were any plans to promote more soil friendly agriculture.