Word: britains
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...U.S.S.R. has a standing armed force of 5.2 million (vs. 2.1 million for the U.S.), but Moscow's reliance on universal conscription of 18-year-olds means that morale and motivation are lower than in countries with all- volunteer forces, like the U.S. and Britain. In conventional units, the Kremlin has traditionally opted for quantity over quality, relying on large numbers of troops and weapons and de-emphasizing battlefield initiative and high technology...
...more expensive to maintain. Qualified personnel will be needed to operate the new equipment -- at higher training costs. Soviet procurement practices, moreover, are skewed toward the purchase of proven products rather than sophisticated new equipment. "They have no problem churning out tanks," says Jonathan Eyal, a research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. "But they do have a problem keeping pace with technological advancement...
...countries, Nomura is increasingly showing its muscle on foreign ground. Six years after establishing a full-fledged subsidiary in London, it ranks No. 1 in the Eurobond market, having overtaken the likes of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston. Nomura controls investment or commercial banks in Britain, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and Bahrain. In the U.S. it is a major dealer in Treasury issues and holds a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In The Second Wave: Japan's Global Assault on Financial Services, Authors Richard W. Wright and Gunther A. Pauli put it this way: "Nomura stands alone...
Poor Neil Kinnock. Sinking ever lower in the polls, the leader of Britain's Labor Party embarked on an eleven-day goodwill tour of southern Africa designed to lift his ratings. En route from Mozambique to Zimbabwe last week, Kinnock and his entourage landed by mistake at a tiny military airstrip near the Mozambican border. Instead of a welcoming party, the plane was met by Zimbabwean soldiers, armed with Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifles, who herded Kinnock's 15-member group into a whitewashed...
...past. And the results of changes in educational direction are glaringly obvious from the poll's findings: American adults may have scored poorly on the survey, but Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old category did even worse, placing last out of nine countries, including Mexico, Canada, Great Britain and Japan...