Word: result
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...been the fate of Russia's modernist art at the hands of dictators bent on enforcing their philistine tastes with the whole armamentarium of the totalitarian state. Even Mikhail Gorbachev has found that the tradition of putting down avant-garde art dies hard among cultural bureaucrats. As a result, the visual arts have been far slower than literature and music to benefit from glasnost...
There is another product in high demand but short supply on the Soviet side these days, thanks to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign. As a result, Chinese traders make room in their sample cases for bottles of mao-tai, a fiery 120-proof sorghum liquor -- not to sell but to lubricate negotiations with their Siberian hosts. Says Dimitri Krolov, a Soviet regional trade official who joined the train in Zabaikalsk: "Business is booming. We manufacture what they want, they grow what we want...
...Middle East, Dukakis has made pro-Israeli lobbies happy by promising to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, an action that could gravely undermine U.S. leverage. At the same time, however, he has made them unhappy by refusing to rule out the possibility that negotiations might result in some form of Palestinian state. Instinctively and politically, Dukakis seems more closely aligned with Israel than does Bush...
...only have economic condition deteriorated under the PRI's current head, President Miguel de la Madrid, with real wages having fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s and the foreign debt having climbed to an astronomical $108 billion, but the party has lost credibility as a result of the recent election confusion as well...
Thornburgh got his start in politics in 1969when he became the U.S. attorney for westernPennsylvania. The young Thornburgh quickly won aname for himself as he aggressively attackedorganized crime, corruption, drug trafficking andpornography. As a result of his strong anti-crimestance, in 1975 he was appointed by President Fordto the post of Assistant Attorney General of theU.S., in charge of the Justice Department'sCriminal Division...