Word: leonid
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However, several Mather tutors said they believes the administration has handled the search poorly. Leonid M. Fridman '85, a resident tutor of mathematics, said he thinks the administration has not been as effective as it could...
Russia's Volsky in some ways is typical: he began working in the military- industrial system in Leonid Brezhnev's day and eventually rose to chief of industry for the Communist Party under Mikhail Gorbachev. His Industrialists' Union claims to represent 70% of the country's state-enterprise managers. In June it joined forces with two other parties, one headed by Yeltsin's Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, to form Civic Union, which is probably the best- organized political faction in the country. Yeltsin, zigzagging between conservatives and reformers in the same manner he denounced when Gorbachev was doing...
...velvet revolution" transpired in November 1989. The new McDonald's is in sight of the spot where Jan Palach set himself on fire for Czechoslovak freedom in 1969, the spot where Havel laid flowers in 1989 and was arrested for the deed. Now a deadpan sword swallower resembling Leonid Brezhnev draws a crowd of American children, and punkers with spiked Mohawk haircuts wander the medieval lanes...
...political weapon has almost always backfired. The classic example is also the original one: in the mid-1970s, congressional conservatives passed the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withheld MFN from the U.S.S.R. until the Kremlin agreed to let more Soviet Jews emigrate. Just to show who was boss, Leonid Brezhnev decreased the number of exit visas by two-thirds...
...biggest, Russia and Ukraine, have been bitterly at odds over such issues as ownership of the 300-ship Black Sea Fleet and issuing rival currencies. Meeting at the resort town of Sochi last week, Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk took off their coats, put on their smiles and worked out an 18-point agreement. They pledged coordination of policies on currency and trade and reached a tentative compromise on dividing the fleet but sharing the bases. It was, said Kravchuk, "a fundamental turn in relations...