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...avoid waste and to give the Soviets an incentive for sticking to a hard road. "Bush knows Gorbachev is a communist and has no visceral or intellectual commitment to market reforms," says one of the Administration's top Soviet specialists. "But Gorbachev knows his country is going down the drain and that he has to do something extraordinary...
...creating funding specific to a country, more foreign alumni and corporations will participate in the debt-for-scholarship swap, she said. Outside funding will also not post an additional drain on the school's financial aid colonies...
Though Gorbachev has reportedly expressed private worry about a brain drain that would leave too few educated citizens at home to build perestroika, emigration seems unlikely to take any great leap. Fyodor Burlatsky, a prime parliamentary advocate of the new law, estimates that 1.5 million people will leave for good during the first three years that the law is fully effective, not a major annual increase over the 450,000 expected to emigrate this year alone. Other estimates are that 2 million or more may leave quickly after the law takes full effect, but once they are gone, the outflow...
Fauth reached the West Coast just in time for the Independence Day festivities--first, he headed for Salem, Oregon for a party. As expected, he moved on from there and headed for another celebration, this time in Drain, Oregon, where they played "a lot of softball," he recalls fondly. He ended the day of celebration, not in Drain, but Corvallis, Oregon, where he and some relatives watched the sun go down on what was for them just another Fourth of July, but was for Fauth a return--a knowledge that he was finally where he ought...
That was February 4. But while surgery was set for February 15, the doctors told Weisbrod that there was only an 80 percent chance that he could undergo the percanterous disectomy, which is an arthroscopic surgery that uses a needle to drain the disc's excess fluid. Because the operation does not physically alter the back, there is usually a recovery period of only a week...