Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ulam said that if Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin had flown to Cairo as reported, it indicated that serious attempts were under way to resolve the Middle East war through a joint U.S.-Soviet effort...
While the war escalated along the Suez, Egypt's official news agency said yesterday that Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin has held "three long meetings" with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Cairo...
...West trade: "The question of true mutual exchange of goods must be judged much more skeptically. The Soviet Union can supply the West with raw materials, but most of the other Eastern European nations lack that capability." Last year he had a long talk at the Kremlin with Premier Alexei Kosygin, and the session apparently went well. Dresdner last week announced that it had applied for Soviet permission to open an office in Moscow and become the first Western bank represented there...
Like the DC-3. A 27-seat trijet, the YAK can fly on one engine and take off or land on a 1,300-ft.-long dirt strip. It sells for less than $1,200,000. As the designer, Alexei Yakovlev, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "My ship is a true jet successor to the Douglas DC-3. The YAK-40 can operate out of any field that can take a DC-3, and no other jet transport meets that specification...
...gave Russian workers the speedup back in 1935 has resurfaced. Alexei Stakhanov became Stalin's original "shock worker" by producing 102 tons of coal in a six-hour shift-eleven times the norm. Soviet officials then used the high output of dedicated "Stakhanovites" as a pretext to raise production quotas for everyone. Now 66, Stakhanov told Pravda that there was too much emphasis on production statistics, "machines, automation, percentages and tons." When it came time to praise the workers, he said, he had seen party officials giving out awards while sneaking glances at their wristwatches. "Praise should...