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...from the front lines of perestroika these days has been decidedly bleak. The patience of Soviet consumers has become completely shopworn, oil-industry workers are threatening to go on strike, and even army officers grumble publicly about low living standards. While a record harvest lies rotting in the fields, bread -- that staple of Russian life -- has joined the growing list of scarce goods. Meanwhile, pressure mounts for the government of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov to resign. Most worrisome of all for the Kremlin, the once monolithic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems ever closer to fragmenting into bits and pieces...
...opportunity, freedom and the little courtesies available wherever the customer is king. "They're so nice," chortled housewife Gerda Hubner as she walked out of a brand new Meyer food market on East Berlin's Leipziger Strasse. She carried a shopping bag with a few meager purchases -- milk, oranges, bread and cheese. She also carried a yellow rosebud. "They're giving these to all the ladies," she said. "They really want our business." The Meyer chain is one of hundreds of West German companies that have moved with lightning speed into a potentially lucrative market: East Germans hold the deutsche...
...East Berlin's Cityback Bakery. Formerly part of a huge government- owned combine, the bakery has become a private corporation but is near collapse because almost all its former customers are locked into exclusive deals with Western suppliers. At one point, production fell from 50,000 loaves of bread a day to fewer than 15,000. "But our bread is just as good, and it's cheaper, so we opened our own shop here in the factory," says newly minted free-marketeer Issel. Customers have been flocking in for bread that costs 30% less than in the West. Issel says...
...violence than network movies, cable-noir films go straight for the gut. And their aim is true. The cable networks may get more attention for their high-minded docudramas (Mandela) and gourmet remakes (Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons). But these unpretentious B movies are their doughy bread and butter...
...women's issues go, Yard says the Democrats claim to "be supportive of women's rights but they do precious little about it." Indeed, by shying away from strong stances on issues like civil rights, education and health care, the Democrats have ignored their bread and butter constituency: America's underprivileged...