Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNION: YELTSIN'S GREAT COMEBACK...
...ground it is much the same at first. Behind the hard eyes of a young passport officer lurk the ghosts of his country's history: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin, Stalin and all those they once ruled, the entire tragic parade of persecutors and persecuted. And when the officer finally grunts his assent and one is readmitted to the Soviet sanctum, one still imagines great steel doors clanging shut...
...says Fomin, the plant director. "Before, all my mistakes were leveled out by the ministry. They were covered up. Now we must rely on our own skills and resources." Simply arranging financing or figuring out whom to call for operating permits can become a major headache. "We have great difficulty getting supplies," says Alexander Kozlov, 42, the factory's chief planner. "Everyone is in the process of change. Some old connections are broken, and new ones have not yet been established...
...trial that for the first time drew the world's attention to Moscow's dissident movement, Sinyavsky spent almost six years in a labor camp, Daniel five. Sinyavsky emigrated to Paris in 1973, and Soviet authorities reluctantly permitted him to return last January to attend the funeral of his great friend Daniel. In the following pages, Sinyavsky reflects on those remarkable five days in Moscow, on Gorbachev, on the Soviet character and on whether his beloved country has indeed changed for good...
...salvation from psychological destitution. But it's still a long way from physical evidence of perestroika. The gypsy cabdriver who drove us from the airport remarked in a melancholy tone of voice on the neglected roads, filled with potholes, over which we, swearing, were bouncing: "So have ended many great empires!" I was amazed at the daring and aesthetic exactness of his maxims. In my time, people didn't talk so freely...