Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next government will almost certainly pursue the conservative policies of the Brezhnev era. The leaders, though, will probably make overtures to China in an attempt to repair the 18-year-old Sino-Soviet breach. Meanwhile, thousands of middle-level officials who are now in their 40s and 50s will be jockeying for power behind the scenes. By the late 1980s, if not before, they will have completed the second stage of the inevitable transfer of authority to a new generation. Officials now holding 5,000 to 6,000 top jobs will be replaced. These will include not only members...
...native Dallas. Two years later, he decided to give the Navy a second try and was assigned to a nuclear at tack submarine, the U.S.S. Pintado. But when it came time last week to reenlist, Barns decided to return ashore and begin a civilian career as a digital equipment repair man. Says Barns: "It wasn't worth ten more years of my life for what I was getting...
...Mostly I just worked on cars during the trouble," says Oliver Andrew, 42, the owner of a small auto repair shop that stands on the eastern edge of Liberty City. Andrew says he did not feel that he was in great danger, at least not from fellow blacks, " 'cause I'm pretty well known in this neighborhood...
...occupants stared at me suspiciously. 'What the hell do you want?' said one. When I explained, they grinned and were more than willing to oblige. One was a 20-year-old lathe operator, another a candy store employee. The five others were friends from a neighborhood auto repair shop...
Gromyko's speech, in contrast, blamed current world tensions on the West and proclaimed that the "Soviet Union is a supporter of detente." These sentiments summed up Moscow's new "peace offensive," which is apparently designed to repair the damage done to its reputation by the invasion of Afghanistan. The scope of the new offensive was outlined in Warsaw at a high-powered gathering of Brezhnev and the heads of the other Warsaw Pact states...