Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both teams were drained by the fourth period, which may have accounted for the low-scoring final quarter. The Crimson, however, swam with a firm resolve and tied the score with 4:45 remaining...
Vladimir Yakovlev, 30, a former journalist, has cashed in on the co-op movement by starting a company to collect and sell information about such ventures. Yakovlev launched the firm, called Fakt, two years ago and already has more than 30 offices in the Soviet Union. Yakovlev, who last fall visited the U.S. for the first time to learn more about foreign trade, pays himself 1,500 rubles a month ($2,400), five times as much as he made as a journalist. His most enviable perk is a company car and driver. "I spend a lot of money every month...
...Sokolniki, a park on the outskirts of Moscow. This goons' picnic would not be repeated today. The socialist realist line, imposed by Stalin after 1929 and kept to the end of Brezhnev's reign, held that a work of art should fulfill the criteria of partinost (party spirit), ideinost (firm commitment to prescribed ideology) and narodnost (true portrayal of the life, soul and spirit of the people). It has now been undone. "Dissident" modernism became a talisman only because it was repressed; once tolerated and encouraged, it becomes politically harmless...
...contract in 1987 to provide machinery and software for oil refineries, Soviet bureaucrats helped the company locate a Moscow building for its headquarters. Only problem: there were holes in the floors, and the structure was badly in need of renovation. Until they can find suitable quarters, 22 of the firm's workers are crammed into three tiny hotel rooms...
Shapiro, 60, a senior partner in the firm Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, was recommended by U.S. Trustee Harry Jones and appointed by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland...