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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes he has already wrought will leave an indelible mark. The reforms of Khrushchev and Kosygin were squelched, but the ideas they planted blossomed a quarter-century later in a new generation of leadership. As Gorbachev told Henry Kissinger when he visited Moscow earlier this year, "At any rate, things will never be the same again in the Soviet Union." Notes Kissinger: "This would be a modest result for so Herculean a task." Yes, but once again the contradiction is also true: the fact that the Soviet Union has been so deeply altered that it will never again be exactly...
...SOME RUBLES CHEAP? Since the Soviets do not permit their money to be freely converted into dollars or other currencies, the rubles Westerners earn in the U.S.S.R. have dubious value. Foreign companies cannot send their rubles home or even calculate their earnings accurately because there is no accepted exchange rate. While Moscow says the ruble is worth about $1.60, the currency fetches as little as 10 cents on the black market. Some U.S. firms have got around the problem by persuading Moscow to allow the companies to export what they produce with Soviet partners for dollars rather than rubles...
Donovan, who has led his midfield cohorts to a 68 percent face-off success rate on the season, has entered the scoring column before. But Vogel is less accustomed to the limelight...
...especially middle-aged women with little economic or political leverage, seems to be lesser. It may be--only because men in power have never taken women seriously. For older generations of women, it was one of the only places in politics that they could be taken seriously. At any rate, the most recent presidential debates were taken away from the league--and the substantive content of the presentations didn't improve...
Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts, said the rate of crime would be distorted because of many colleges' high proportion of commuting students...