Word: itar
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Most of the wire services are available on-line. A variety of services, from the Associated Press to ITAR-TASS, are available at http://www.trib.com...
...Academie Francaise, famous for trying to purge the French language of creeping Americanisms such as "le weekend," has now been upstaged by Russia. In the southern city of Belgorod, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported today, authorities have imposed a tax on foreign letters used in advertisements and company names. Writing with non-Russian letters will cost owners 500 times the minimum monthly salary -- about...
...missile fired from a Russian Su-25 attack jet on a testing range went off course and narrowly missed an apartment complex and a nuclear power plant, the ITAR-Tass news agency said today. The missile, launched on Friday from Voronezh, about 350 miles south of Moscow, reportedly landed just 2.7 miles from the Novovoronezhskaya power station and only 660 feet from the apartment buildings, injuring one man. Regional Gov. Alexander Kovalyov complained on national television that he has repeatedly asked for the range to be moved. Last Friday's TIME Daily MONEY
...world. Fortune 500 corporations have received a price list which sets $1 million as the space rate for plastering the whole square with product slogans and billboards, or $500,000 for just the red brick Kremlin wall. "This will be the first official celebration of the new Russia," the ITAR-TASS news agency said in its announcement of the ad sale. "Have your day but bring dollars...