Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really is bugging you to the point of distraction, get the hell out and fuck the degree. Only you can decide; remember, as we used to say in the navy, there is no barbed wire round the place keeping you in (or is there)? The barbed wire of indecision? Mix in different company if present company is giving you the shits, but John lad, no environment is perfect... Oct 3 1988 [cont...
...potential for violence, and even for the disintegration of the Soviet order, is enormous. The U.S.S.R. is a vast amalgam of nationalities that have always been restive under the imperial Soviet system. To mix the politics of openness and the economics of scarcity is a messy and dangerous experiment...
...result of that mix is the disaster that Gorbachev faces today. The combination of totalitarianism, or "command-administrative methods," and bureaucracy has stultified Soviet society, economy and culture. Gorbachev is trying to introduce the economic mechanisms and democratic political institutions that have been developing in the West while the Soviet Union has been trudging down its own dead end, particularly during the lost years of the Brezhnev period...
...East Germans drive in for shopping. A study by Berlin's Technical University has shown that Trabants spew roughly nine times as many hydrocarbons and five times as much carbon monoxide as most other cars in Western Europe. Though some West Germans refer to the Trabi's distinctive mix of gas and oil smoke as "the smell of freedom," others are more direct. They call the Trabi the "little stinker...