Word: planned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staples of daily life. Moreover, Soviet doctors do not think the government has given enough attention or resources to the drive for good health. Dr. Vorobyev, who has written a best-selling book called Components of Health, advocates a "national campaign for fitness" and is working on a plan to set up kiosks , on city streets where people can pick up diet advice, be weighed or have their blood pressure checked. Says he: "I want to put a scale in every factory, in every movie theater and at every bus stop...
...from the North Slope to Valdez for shipment by tanker to the West Coast, oil companies had been shrugging off environmentalists' forebodings of just such an occurrence. In January 1987, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the consortium of oil companies (including Exxon) that manages the pipeline, filed a contingency plan with the Federal Government detailing how it would handle a 200,000-bbl. spill in Prince ; William Sound. Alyeska did so only grudgingly, however, protesting, "It is highly unlikely that a spill of this magnitude would occur. Catastrophic events of this nature are further reduced because the majority of tankers calling...
...banners and posters that once festooned the avenues and office buildings have vanished, along with their exhortations for workers to fulfill the latest Five-Year Plan and their dreary pronouncements that the socialist road is the road to peace. If the boilerplate is not missed, the color...
Because the Committee for State Planning controls only 30% of Elektrosila's production, the factory's managers have extraordinary freedom to plan, manufacture and sell the rest of the plant's output as they see fit (total annual production value: 162 million rubles, or $260 million at the official Soviet conversion rate). Elektrosila has boosted its foreign sales from less than 15% of its production a few years ago to about one-fourth of its current output. "We are now the masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit...
...industrial ministries, forced to fulfill their five-year plans, have been slow to relinquish their power. Employees at the giant Uralmash machine works in the town of Sverdlovsk won a victory last year when they successfully protested a state plan on grounds that it called for more heavy machinery than customers needed. But after the workers made their point, Moscow bureaucrats simply sent the orders to a more compliant factory. Said a fed-up manager of another plant at last June's Communist Party Conference: "It's hopeless to fight paperwork. You have to kill off the authors...