But she's not being repressed, Dr. Zemph.

Turns out that there is still huge unlocked potential.

At the peak of his career in 1985, Elton John sang about Nikita , a love interest confined behind the Iron Curtain.

Asians have watched the formerly triumphant euro s Greek crisis with a muted sense of vindication.

Regrettably, however, omnipresent territorial and internal strife has shown the ugly face of political ambition, heretofore repressed during the bipolar period.

In the meantime, it is clear that old, deep seated problems still await solutions and new ones, once held in check by the circumstances of the time, are emerging.

Indeed, the end of the cold war revealed and released ethnic and nationalist tensions which had been repressed, and brought back behaviour which we thought had receded far into history.

Many have reflected on the fact that one unfortunate result of the end of the cold war appears to have been the unleashing of ethnic, political and territorial disputes that had been suppressed over the last half century.

In the case of Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay and Venezuela, however, more relaxed fiscal management caused incipient flare ups of inflation, with certain signs of repressed prices in those countries where there was lagged adjustment of prices and public sector rates.