Word: pavlov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Meshkova and other Russians the news of a reissued $100 note revives bad memories. In the winter of 1991, when then Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov suddenly announced that citizens had three days to exchange their rubles for a newly printed currency, they could turn in only the equivalent of one month's salary. The old rubles were declared worthless, and millions of Russians lost their life savings. Then in 1993 the government made another sudden decree, which meant that Russians again had to exchange a limited amount of old money for new, with the transaction stamped in passports to prevent...
...could participate in an insurance plan or be on a certain hospital staff. Quite a change from when credentials were determined by training and ability. The winners in this scheme: big business, the insurance companies, the hospitals and the lawyers. The losers: doctors and their patients. PAUL M. PAVLOV, M.D. Ocean Springs, Mississippi...
...example, an almond-size knot of nerve cells located close to the brain stem, specializes in memories of fear; the basal ganglia, clumps of gray matter within both cerebral hemispheres, handle habits and physical skills; the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, governs conditioned learning (as when Pavlov's dogs salivated at the ringing of the dinner bell) and some reflexes...
...Russia too, and the beat that unites. "Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you feel the energy," says Ivan Salmaxov, 22, who organizes "rave parties" in Moscow, where rappers from as far away as Minsk and St. Petersburg can dance, check out homegrown talent like MC Pavlov and listen to such heated songs as Bad Balance's Children of Satan, about growing street violence. Says Bad Balance lead singer Chill Will: "People like rap because they can dance and listen to new information at the same time...
...badly planned and halfheartedly carried out: had the plotters acted with half the acumen and ruthlessness of the routine Latin general or African strongman seizing power, they might have succeeded. But some appeared to be more terrified than any of their prospective victims. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov and Vice President Gennadi Yanayev, the ostensible head (really figurehead) of the so-called Emergency Committee, reportedly spent most of the three days of the coup dead drunk. Though Yanayev pulled himself together long enough to hold a press conference the first night of the coup, he and some other members...