Word: orientedness
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Cynthia McNamara is not your typical tourist. For more than 15 years, the 39- year-old Philadelphia-born anthropologist has prowled the back roads of Africa and Asia and lived for stretches in Spain and Iran. Last December, however, as McNamara was finishing up a two-year trek through South...
"It was a great offensive effort," McGinley said. "We scored on a lot of a different types of situations: one-on-ones, fast breaks and team oriented plays. The offense was really clicking."
Economic detente with the Soviets has spawned consumer-oriented ventures as well. For the past two weeks, Muscovites have been lining up to buy slices of the first American pizza in the Soviet Union, for 1.25 rubles ($2.10) each at the AstroPizza truck that makes stops around the city. The...
By moving on Ligachev, Gorbachev seemed to be strengthening his credentials as the evenhanded middleman in the argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee...
"Until 1969, [the Bureau] was very status oriented," Zimmerman says. "People who joined were not necessarily interested in legal services."