Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer were to design the ideal President to deal with Mikhail Gorbachev, it might whir and buzz and come up with George Bush. As Ambassador to the United Nations, Bush got to know the folkways of the world forum where Gorbachev has been concentrating much of his genius for public diplomacy. As the U.S.'s man in China, Bush had a crash course in Communism and geopolitics. As director of Central Intelligence, he learned what KGB networks and Soviet missile warheads could do to the West on a bad day. As Vice President, he met as many General Secretaries...
...their glory days, they patrolled Philadelphia's mean streets, searched buildings and sniffed for bombs and narcotics. When they retired, the hounds of the Philadelphia police department's canine unit traditionally got pensions in the form of free dog food and veterinary care. But on March 1, Police Commissioner Willie Williams eliminated the benefits of 45 wet-nosed retirees to shave $13,500 from the department's $262 million budget. "When you are looking at cutting services to the homeless," said police spokesman Captain Richard De Lise, "how can you justify feeding dogs...
...growing accommodation between church and state in the officially atheistic nation. Last year's 1,000th-anniversary celebrations greatly enhanced the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church. This year the long-suffering Jewish community opened its first school for rabbis in 60 years, and Lithuania's Roman Catholics got their first full lineup of bishops in 40 years. A similar renewal is taking place among the 55 million Muslims, who constitute the world's fifth largest Islamic population (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India). By some estimates, ^ Muslims will make up one-fourth of Soviet citizens by the turn...
...Said a U.S. executive: "The phone would ring, and our Soviet managers wouldn't answer it. They'd pick up the receiver and hang up. And they didn't understand about taking messages. I would come back to the office, and they'd say, 'Someone called.' I've finally got them to take a number...
...U.S.S.R. have dubious value. Foreign companies cannot send their rubles home or even calculate their earnings accurately because there is no accepted exchange rate. While Moscow says the ruble is worth about $1.60, the currency fetches as little as 10 cents on the black market. Some U.S. firms have got around the problem by persuading Moscow to allow the companies to export what they produce with Soviet partners for dollars rather than rubles...