Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rising Kremlin star got a firsthand look at how far the Soviet economy had fallen behind the West's. When Gorbachev joined the national hierarchy, he was already well traveled by comparison with such other Soviet leaders as Andropov, who never set foot outside the Communist world, and Suslov, who reportedly once told a visa applicant that he saw no reason why anyone would want to journey beyond the U.S.S.R...
...Politburo approval as long ago as 1983, have yet to be put into effect nationwide. Meanwhile, the economy continues to fall behind those of the West. As recently as 1975, the Soviet economy was about 58% as large as its U.S. counterpart. But by 1984 that figure had fallen to 54%, and the gap is probably still growing. With his usual hard-boiled realism, Gorbachev told the Central Committee shortly before becoming General Secretary, "We cannot remain a major power in world affairs unless we put our domestic house in order...
Some of the year' s most unforgettable photographs focus on a superpower summit, a stock- market panic and a congressional probe into a scandal that shook a government. Others are on a more human scale: a Pontiff embracing a young AIDS victim, a preacher fallen from grace, a wide- eyed little girl rescued from a well in Texas. All are presented in a 24- page portfolio...
...accurate, San Francisco has only 725,000 residents. But the images of cable cars climbing past high-rises, a densely settled Chinatown and a skyline packed tightly into a nest of hills suggest a metropolis of greater heft. In recent years, however, the city's problems have fallen into sharper and more painful focus...
Almost unnoticed, much of America's animation business has moved offshore, primarily to Japan and South Korea, in search of lower costs. Since 1980, the number of unionized U.S. animation workers has fallen from 1,650 to 1,250, and Lou Scheimer, president of Filmation, contends that his Pinocchio could be the last all-American-made animated movie. Filmation may soon join the ranks of animation companies that produce most of their TV cartoons overseas...