Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy has been unable to win--leading to the Gorbachev "reforms." The political and economic costs of the arms race and Soviet expansionism--and the realization that these policies cannot be continued with out doing great harm to the Soviet economy and regime--are what ultimately lie behind recent Russian reforms...
Greeting Gorbachev on the tarmac, Haughey opened with "Cead Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes), a traditional Irish language phrase. And to an approving smile from Gorbachev, the 63-year-old prime minister added in Russian, "I'm delighted you have arrived in our country...
...huge sign declaring "Welcome" in Irish, Russian and English hung over Shannon's sprawling duty-free shop...
...there something in the Russian character that hinders progress in this country...
...think the problem derives from conditions that do not allow the Russian character to express itself. The Russian character is no weaker than the American character. We also have people with a flair for business, but, of course, in the matter of entrepreneurship, some of your executives have made quicker progress, thanks to entrepreneurship itself. We only started talking about socialist entrepreneurship in the past few years, thinking it a possible way out for ourselves. "Come on," we said, "move and think faster, and you'll get more profit for your enterprise...