Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he talks about Siberia, which is 35 times as large as Japan's home islands and less than 400 miles away. Mainland Siberia is one of the world's largest reservoirs of undeveloped natural resources (see map), a fact that does not fail to impress the raw material-hungry Japanese. Russia has tried without much success to make Siberia an economically profitable territory. At the same time, Japanese businessmen have had their eyes cocked on Siberia as a place where they might make a lot of money. The Russians, however, have always resolutely tried to shut...
...campaign as the distinct underdog. Nixon's high rating in the polls is part of the reason, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is likely to enhance his appeal. Because Nixon still has the reputation of being a tough antiCommunist, he stands to benefit from Moscow's raw assertion of power...
...Russians were expected to try every tactic to bring the Czechoslovaks to their socialist senses. For one thing, they would no doubt remind the Czechoslovaks that 80% of their trade is with the Soviet Union, which could easily cut off the wheat and raw materials that the country depends upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from...
...only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling as their raw material must have been...
...than two decades, West Berlin has lived and prospered despite its isolation inside Communist territory. The economic cost of accomplishing that feat is now getting higher and higher. Surrounded by bitterly hostile East Germany, the city (pop. 2,200,000) must bring in most of its food, fuel and raw materials through its air, rail, autobahn and canal lifelines with West Germany, 110 miles away. And to keep their $10 billion-a-year economy afloat under such circumstances, West Berliners have been forced to rely increasingly on powerful infusions of capital and outright subsidies from the West German government...