Word: abroader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today a growing corps of experienced medics look upon volunteer medicine as a career. Salaries are minimal: doctors in the field are paid between $700 and $800 a month, nurses somewhat less. But most of those who go abroad feel they are more than compensated by a sense of venturesome achievement. Stephane Michon, a French nurse, contracted malaria during a tour in Thailand, but she readily said yes when M.S.F. asked her to go to Sudan to work with refugees...
Partly to mollify frustrated Soviet shoppers, authorities last week announced new restrictions on the export of Soviet appliances by visitors from abroad. As a practical matter, the rules will affect mainly East Europeans paying for their travel with other soft currencies who sometimes find in the Soviet Union products that are scarce at home. Western visitors and residents will continue to have access to a wider selection of consumer goods than most Soviets enjoy at stores called beriozkas that deal only in much desired hard currencies...
Ending a somber national vigil, the ruler of the Chrysanthemum Throne succumbs to cancer at 87. His son and successor, Crown Prince Akihito, remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher abroad. -- Despite Gorbachev' s promise that consumer goods will proliferate under perestroika, the opposite proves true. -- A day in the life of a Soviet shopper...
...trade officials contend that the E.C. ban is motivated in large part by protectionism, since European beef producers are raising more cattle than they can sell locally or abroad. E.C. nations added 140,000 tons of excess beef to meat-locker stockpiles last year, bringing the total surplus to more than 723,000 tons, or nearly two months of European consumption...
...several of Japan's leading business and political figures. Not since former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was convicted of taking bribes from Lockheed during the mid-'70s have the Japanese been so shaken by disclosures of official wrongdoing. As the scandal spreads, it threatens to tarnish Japan's image abroad and to undermine the country's confidence in its businessmen and politicians...