Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlinologists read potentially ominous portents into the recent emergence of other Soviet officials into the limelight. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has assumed an increasingly high profile, particularly in dealing with the post-earthquake cleanup operation in Armenia. Shevardnadze is also a familiar face on the evening news these days, as is Yegor Ligachev, the dour conservative who has worked at softening his brusque image since being bumped from the de facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others...
...lack of personal discipline on the part of its 6.8 million inhabitants, and targeted everything from fast-food establishments to dog owners as contributors to the squalor. It went on to suggest 120 ways for London to clean up its act. Among them: bigger litter bins, special cleanup crews to swoop in and clear out debris, and rebates on civic garbage-collection fees in exchange for cleaner sidewalks...
...Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...
...Environment, Goskompriroda, and given it an impressive range of powers. "In this restructuring," said Nicholas Robinson, a Pace University professor and an expert on the Soviet environment, "the Communist Party Central Committee has decided that, after disarmament, environmental protection is the No. 1 world issue." An aggressive cleanup program has already begun. Projects are being re-evaluated in light of their environmental impact. Fines have been levied on some polluters, and criminal proceedings have been started against others...
Perestroika, now in its fourth year, seems stalled, and has yet to bring much improvement in economic conditions, with worsening shortages of food and consumer goods. The economy is afflicted by a $58 billion budget deficit, a $12.8 billion cleanup bill after Chernobyl, and serious losses in revenues from declining oil prices and the enforced drop in vodka sales. Now the billions of rubles that will have to be spent on reconstruction of an area about the size of Maryland must be figured in. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted last week that the Soviet leadership "made a mistake" when...