Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, undisguised inflation exists in sectors not subject to iron-fisted government control-imports, goods sold on sanctioned free markets and those peddled in widespread black markets. There is an Orwellian rip-off on the prices of so-called new products. By making the most minute change in any item-even installing a new car heater -a factory manager can get it classified as new and kick up the price. That does not count as an "increase" because the product theoretically has just come to the market. In the Soviet Union, the latest model Volga car costs $12,170, about...
...clear now to thoughtful members of the literary apparat that a critic who praises an Iron Curtain writer does so at considerable risk to his reputation as a subtle fellow. Some variant of the skepticism now being directed at Solzhenitsyn is sure to tar the enthusiast. "A great soul, certainly," it will be said, "with great lumps on his head from those rubber truncheons, but a great writer ... ?" The message is stern: under an oppressive state, all artists may be persecuted, but not all those persecuted are artists...
...Switzerland to finance projects outside West Germany. The steel-company acquisition is viewed by both Iranians and Krupp executives as an ideal marriage: Iran needs Krupp's technical know-how, and Krupp needs the infusion of capital from Iran. Last year, the company produced 3.1 million tons of iron and 4.3 million tons of steel, and generated $1 billion of Krupp's worldwide sales of $3 billion...
...aided greatly by the academic novelty of a balanced college budget. A Princeton graduate with a Harvard Ph.D. in political science, Swearer taught at U.C.L.A., was voted most popular teacher one year by political science majors. Lured to the Ford Foundation, he handled European and international programs, particularly in Iron Curtain countries, before going to Carleton in 1970. Recently he set up a well-received internship program there that allows students to try out jobs while still enrolled in school...
Cheap Credit. Recently, Ex-Im granted a $469 million credit package to finance an $80 million trade center in Moscow and plants to make chemicals, iron-ore pellets and fertilizers, to be built with assistance and hardware from U.S. companies. By 1978, Ex-Im loans to the Soviets could total $1.4 billion. Senator Stevenson charges that the credits are going to a nation that does not really need the help. "Soviet gross national product," he points out, "is second only...