Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to be at a university that doesn't resemble Harvard in any way because I feel the problems in this country with mass education are connected to the class problems," Felstiner says...
...before the purges of the mid-'30s. During the '60s and '70s, the public was teased by announcements that Arbat would soon appear. It never did. Then last year Druzhba Narodov, a Soviet Writers Union periodical, serialized the work in three installments, and the stage was set for the mass market...
Last year, however, the Ziemans' eldest daughter Galina, 26, was allowed to move to the U.S. with her husband Victor Khatutsky. The couple now live in Brighton, Mass., with their 2 1/2-year-old daughter Anna. Vera's eyes sparkle when she talks of being reunited with her sister and starting a new life in the West. "I want to sing in a choir," she says. "And I'd like a dog. Our apartment here is too small for one." But beneath her infectious optimism dwells an ever present anxiety. "It's very hard for me here," Vera Zieman says quietly. "Sometimes...
...advertisers were recruited by Global American Television, a small company based in Colrain, Mass., and co-producer of several public affairs programs that have appeared on both U.S. and Soviet TV. Global American arranged for PepsiCo, Visa and Sony to buy ten minutes on Posner's shows for $20,000 a minute, in contrast with up to $800,000 a minute that advertisers pay for prime time on U.S. networks. Still, said Posner, "we can make some money out of this...
...Congress is designed to curb the deficit by forcing the White House to take stronger action against unfair ; foreign trade practices. But President Reagan has promised to veto the measure largely because it contains a provision requiring companies to give workers 60 days' notice of plant closings and mass layoffs. It appears that Democrats do not have enough votes in the Senate to override the veto, especially after the trade-report figures...