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Word: rostselmash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...such coherence or vision applies to the new Russian economy. Since Boris Yeltsin began shock treatment last January, the result has been a bundle of contradictions. In the industrial city of Rostov, the mammoth Rostselmash factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: Why It Still Doesn't Work | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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