Word: saling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Regulating the production and sale of the toxic chemicals used in mining and agriculture...
...Gorbachev. They follow a string of precedents set by the Soviet Union: its first contested elections in 71 years; withdrawal from Afghanistan; constructive mediation in southern Africa; offers of significant cuts in the Warsaw Pact's conventional-force structure in Europe; and even, despite reports of an unwelcome sale of jet bombers to Libya, suggestions of a generally more helpful approach to the Middle East...
...understated the task. To begin with, he must negotiate a new contract with Eastern's hard-bargaining machinists. They walked out last month and the carrier was forced into bankruptcy when the airline's pilots refused to cross picket lines. Even if Ueberroth wins labor peace, the Eastern sale must be approved by the federal bankruptcy court and Eastern's creditors, a process that could take months. Once he is firmly at the controls, Ueberroth must struggle to fill his planes with consumers who have switched to other airlines while most Eastern flights have been grounded. As Ueberroth...
Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...
...button on sale at Moscow's Izmailovo open-air market not long ago neatly captured the country's traditional attitude toward sex: IN THE SOVIET UNION, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SEX. As far as public discussion is concerned, the statement is not far from wrong. The U.S.S.R. has long been a society that is not just puritanical but almost completely ignorant about sexuality. The typical Soviet woman has nine abortions not because of liberal attitudes but because the procedure is a substitute for contraception, which is essentially unavailable. Says Igor Kon, a founding father of Soviet sociology...