Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bank is not above appealing to stereotypical womanly values. It now offers fine sable coats, in lieu of interest, to big-time customers. A deposit of $50,000 for five years earns a Canadian sable worth $25,000, or putting down $100,000 brings a $60,000 Russian coat. The furs are the equivalent of an 11 1/4% interest rate. The offer strikes many feminists as ironic and animal lovers as outrageous...
Nicholas H. Turner, a fellow this semester at the Russian Research Center, said General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of "glasnost" has opened new doors to the foreign press because Soviet officials have become more accommodating...
Many Western analysts saw Gorbachev's speech as a pragmatic compromise between these two wings. "Gorbachev has been made to walk a fine line," said Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard University's Russian Research Center. "The conservatives have said he's gone too far, while the reformers say he's not gone far enough. He's not able to do anything innovative at this point. The speech is an indication that he's had to scale back his plans for reform." Princeton University Political Scientist Stephen Cohen, however, called Gorbachev's performance a "major speech" that "attacked the entire...
Gorbachev may meet with faculties from the Slavic and Government departments and the Russian Research Center, Hunt said. He said the University would also attempt to arrange a discussion with students, but said that no details have been worked...
...Gorbachev it would make sense to come here. It would make sense to visit the Route 128 corridor" where much of the high-tech industry has gravitated in recent years, said Marshall I. Goldman '56, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center...