Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Gorbachev's historic trip to Washingtonnext month will bring the Soviet Union to acrossroads and that many decisions made duringthat period will determine whether Soviet societywill become more open...
...stock, and their own personal wealth, since August, most were determined to stay calm and not make any rash moves. Almost no one rushed to slash production or shelve capital-spending plans. But many companies began taking a hard look at their operations, realizing that further market declines could bring on a recession. For companies that had been planning to issue new stock or for young firms hoping to go public, the impact of the Black Monday crash was immediate and devastating. Many were forced to put their plans on hold until stock prices rise substantially, and they faced...
Soviet economists contend that China's remarkable breakthrough in food production must be measured against the primitive level of farming that prevailed before the reforms. They question whether such high yields can be sustained solely through intensive hand-cultivation of crops. Mechanizing the Chinese countryside would bring about needed changes in farming, but at a high price: widespread rural unemployment. To soak up excess labor and concentrate land in the hands of the most efficient peasants, China has launched a rural industrialization drive that has resulted in smokestacks, water towers and silos sprouting up in the provinces as fast...
Romano may be flippant, but he is not without charm, which Mastroianni's warm voice, Latin gestures and aging face bring out. Who can resist a man who is willing to wade in a medicinal mud bath to retrieve a lady's hat--while dressed in white tie? Not Anna (Elena Sofovna), nor even her dog Sabatchka (the word has deep metaphysical meaning--little dog--and becomes a silly symbol of the relationship between Anna and Romano...
...attempt to bring art to life for her students, Ritsuko Taho, who teaches VES 30, "Fundamentals of Sculpture", gave each of her students a live chicken and instructed them to keep it for a day, take it to a slaughterhouse, and watch it be killed...