Word: kopeks
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...investigated the FAA progress, and though it?s true that they?ve made many positive gains since last February, don?t be fooled. The FAA is far from out of the woods, and the flip side of its shiny Krugeraand of reassurance is a dull and gritty kopek of uncertainty and unanswered questions...
...There were a number of dramatic moments in my life. For example, I decided to travel all around the Soviet Union without a kopek in my pocket, just to see it. It was in 1952. I traveled and observed during the three summer months. To have a checkbook while traveling is one thing. It is quite another to own only a student card identifying me as a student of the Urals Polytechnical Institute. This taught me a lot, for instance, when I traveled on the roof of a railroad car without a ticket, when I spent the night in sheds...
...fate of President Reagan and of his Administration is in God's hands," argues Valentin Falin, a principal Soviet spokesman and director of the press agency Novosti. "If Oliver North reveals Mr. Reagan as a co-conspirator, then your President will not be worth a kopek." While the Soviets may be relishing the Iran-contra crisis, their interest is more strategic than voyeuristic. Reagan's current predicament, combined with Mikhail Gorbachev's success at consolidating his own power in the Politburo at his party plenum last month, has convinced many in Moscow that Reagan now needs a summit far more...
...Seven young girls, just out of school, and they are the ones who really are holding the whole kolkhoz together. Each kopek is milked by their hands, and getting more milkmaids is one of his biggest headaches. The old women can't build a modern kolkhoz; that's why he had to argue for weeks to break down the resistance of schoolgirls. And then, if the girl was ready to sign up, her mother would hit the roof. 'What? My daughter muck around in the manure! Is that why my husband and I sweated our guts...
...been in the fields all summer and what did I get for it? My children will be going to school soon, and they have no shoes or clothes. We go to pick mushrooms because we can sell them at the store and bring in a kopek or two at home.' Added another woman sarcastically. 'We don't have to eat at all. I suppose. This is my second year without a cow and it's been pretty...