Word: greetings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down from his white and blue Luftwaffe jet at Moscow's Vnukovo II Airport, President Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on hand, along with a goose-stepping honor guard. Belying rumors about his ill health, Brezhnev strolled briskly across the Tarmac to greet Schmidt. The ceremony was clearly intended to convey the Kremlin's satisfaction that the Soviets were no longer considered in moral quarantine by the West...
Tyntareva and her customers were part of the Soviet Union's thriving underground economy. This involves more than just the familiar black marketeers, dealing in Levi's and ballpoint pens, icons and caviar, who greet Western visitors around the main tourist hotels. It is, in fact, a second economy, parallel to the official state-controlled one. In a thriving permanent network, illegal and quasi-legal entrepreneurs, speculators and thieves sell hard-to-get goods and services to workers, peasants and even state officials...
...Alma oilfield, which we discovered and drilled. We got a fourth of our annual oil consumption from that field at a cost of $150 million. We returned it for the sake of peace. I may blush when I say this, but when Vice President Mondale came out to greet me at Andrews Air Force Base, he used the following words: "On behalf of President Carter, I greet you as a hero, a hero of peace...
Lyman's citation reads: Proudly we greet this son of Harvard, Stanford's leader in troubled times, spokesman for all of higher education, ever alert to new paths toward academic excellence and high achievement...
...based on his work, notably Two Women, which established Sophia Loren as a serious actress. Today his own scripts, movie reviews and articles are as much a part of Roman life as the traffic. In addition, Moravia benefits from the special relationship European authors have with their readers. Strangers greet him on the street, and journalists constantly seek his opinions. At 72 he still considers himself one of Rome's foremost "emergency intellectuals," a cultural SWAT team always ready to sign a petition, write protest letters or give interviews for liberal causes...