Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The U.S. has little useful advice for Moscow's ethnic revolts. But Shevardnadze made it clear he was in search of American technical know-how for the ailing Soviet economy. Together with several U.S. and Soviet economists, the pair chewed over such specifics as ruble convertibility and Soviet Treasury bonds...
The fate of Flight 772 raised troubling questions. What or who was responsible for the disaster? French soldiers who arrived at the crash site the day after the accident found wreckage and bodies strewn over miles of empty sand, suggesting that the aircraft had broken up at high altitude. U.S...
It would have been unrealistic to expect the plenum to resolve chronic problems of empire that have bedeviled Czars and party leaders alike. Nevertheless, the outcome was noticeably flat and predictable. The party's new platform offered vague promises of economic and cultural autonomy to the 15 national republics but...
Plainly Gorbachev is hamstrung by the narrow pool of party cadres he has to choose from and uncertainty over who is capable of putting his plans into action and managing them effectively. In fact, the purged Nikonov was appointed by Gorbachev with high hopes just three years ago. Moreover, Gorbachev...
Hence whole pyramids and stupas of doctoral paper have been raised over its site. No short period in the lives of two artists -- about seven years from Picasso's completion of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 to Braque's enlistment in the French army in 1914 -- has been more...