Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yezhov started to deny saying any such thing. Stalin then called Georgi Malenkov, who was at that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied...
But prices cannot stabilize as long as there are too many rubles chasing too few consumer goods. The Shatalin plan calls for absorbing excess rubles from the Soviet economy by selling back state-owned assets to the public. In addition, Gorbachev last week raised the idea of devaluing the official...
Big frog, small pond; an even smaller pond today, with fewer than 400 residents. I look around for the train station, but it's not there. No tracks, either; they were ripped up "Oh, quite a few years ago now." A big prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and...
The idea of a global shortage seems incredible when 70% of the earth's surface is covered by H2O. But 98% of that water is salty, making it unusable for drinking or agriculture. Desalinization is technically feasible, but it is far too expensive to use anywhere except in an ultra...
The enmity between the two runs long and deep. The President still holds the Marcoses responsible for the murder of her husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, who was gunned down at the Manila airport in 1983. Marcos is said to look upon Aquino as an insolent upstart who stole Malacanang Palace...