Word: harde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia has a such a big advantage playing on clay, since it's the only Ivy League school with clay courts," Nikki Rival said. "But it wasn't that hard adjusting. A couple of us slipped on the grass. I fell twice...
...very aggressive," three-seat Ted Marple said. "We attacked them as hard as we could...
When a group of intellectuals and artists were sitting around Moscow debating this question, one of them asked what it would take for the hard- liners to reverse glasnost. "All they'd have to do is fire about six editors," someone replied. "I think one would do it," said another. But even though such a clampdown could occur, it could not erase the ideas or the taste for open discussion that has been liberated. Says Sergei Zalygin, editor of the crusading literary monthly Novy Mir: "How it will end we do not know, but there is no turning back...
...consortium of six U.S. firms -- including Chevron, Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson -- signed an agreement for as many as 25 joint ventures involving about $10 billion over the next 20 years. Although the agreement specified ways that profits could be taken out of the Soviet Union in hard currency and not just held in worthless rubles, joint ventures still face enormous difficulties. Ford Motor Co. pulled out of the consortium because, a spokesman said, it was unable to persuade "the Soviets to adopt new and innovative financial arrangements...
...Hard evidence of Soviet psychiatric abuses first reached the West in the 1970s, and international outrage began to build. At the W.P.A. meeting in 1977, the delegates voted to condemn Soviet practices, and pressure mounted to expel the country's psychiatrists from the organization. Just before the 1983 W.P.A. meeting, the Soviets withdrew from the association...