But any hope of that was dashed on New Year's Eve when President Yeltsin, who had shown considerable flexibility in dealings with the administration, announced that he was stepping down and named Mr. Putin as his successor.
Amazon.com, in particular, has been the source of considerable controversy in its dealings with authors and publishers.
C1 Bank Acknowledges Lapses Citibank officials admitted in Congressional testimony to considerable lapses in their dealings with two Caribbean banks that were used to launder millions of dollars from drug trafficking and bribery.
Under intense questioning during a Congressional hearing today, Citibank officials admitted considerable lapses in their dealings with two Caribbean banks, which were used to launder millions of dollars from drug trafficking and bribery.
He said that the mishandling of the Chen case had cost the United States considerable leverage in its dealings with China, but that it still could salvage the situation by demanding guarantees from China's top leaders that Mr. Chen would be treated well or allowed to emigrate.
That situation of mutual dependence gives Venezuela considerable leverage in its dealings with the United States, and Mr. Chavez, by arranging to have his energy minister named the president of OPEC, has been skillful in using oil as an instrument of foreign policy.
He amassed a considerable fortune in his questionable trade dealings in that post and was recalled in disgrace (1813).
Many health-care providers struggle no less in their administrative dealings with insurers, losing considerable time and money simply submitting, disputing, and collecting claims for reimbursement.
But he is apparently "leaning toward" issuing a second formal report, in which he will discuss in considerable detail their behaviour in various dealings.
A considerable amount of the black market dealings pursued by ISIL are believed to be undertaken along the Turkish-Syrian border and so Turkey has a key role in stepping up efforts to police this.
There are plenty of other shared problems, from drug-trafficking to terrorism to migration, so the West will continue to have plenty of dealings with Russia, as well as considerable leverage.One way of using this wisely will be to show Mr Putin that his approach to many of his domestic problems makes them the world's problems too.
