Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Think a Bit More, Estonian television's live talk show, has a reputation for being a glasnost groundbreaker, but few who tuned in one Wednesday evening nearly a year ago were quite prepared for what happened. During a debate about making the political system more democratic, a novel notion came up. Why not unite people who support perestroika into something resembling the popular-front movements that lobbied for social reforms in Europe during the 1930s? For a moment, the question hung in the air. Nothing like it had ever been tried in the Soviet Union. Telephone lines soon jangled with...
IGNORE THEM, AND MAYBE THEY'LL GO AWAY. Soviet employees are a bit lackadaisical when it comes to customer relations. Said a U.S. executive: "The phone would ring, and our Soviet managers wouldn't answer it. They'd pick up the receiver and hang up. And they didn't understand about taking messages. I would come back to the office, and they'd say, 'Someone called.' I've finally got them to take a number...
...women of Elektrosila are a bit awed by their new freedom, they are too enthusiastic to be daunted. Fomin, a stocky man whose black wavy hair makes him look a decade younger than his 62 years, has turned down repeated offers of ministry jobs in Moscow. "I'm in love with what I'm doing now. Besides, I do more good here. So far, I have had no bad flukes, so I sleep pretty well. But there are a lot of general managers in the Soviet Union who don't sleep well at all these days." As any capitalist would...
...Some new beams have to be put in, and the building has to be jacked up every day a little bit for like four or five days," said Alana M. Knuff, capital project manager for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Wolpin, who hails from Toronto, Canada, said, "I'm very pleased, and a bit suprised," noting that after the induction "there's a lot of purchasing involved." Society honorees pay a $30 membership fee and have the option to buyceremonial keys...