Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that connubiality is discouraged. Officially an army officer assigned to submarine duty, Oseledetz carries an I.D. card that says his task is "to defend the honor of the Central Army Sports Club." The army sponsors one of the two biggest sports clubs; the other, Dinamo, is sponsored by the secret police...
Kahan said that he thought most of the students are "just sort of mildly interested in it," but added "some people have more than a little interest. It's no secret that the Law Scool is embroiled in political controversies...
...secret to success in minority hiring and promotion seems to be simple: hard-nosed commitment. Gannett Co. Inc., the nation's largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, is often derided for its stingy management, but its record in affirmative action is the industry's best. Seven of the company's 89 daily papers are run by minority publishers. The company / strategy: every manager's bonus depends in part on how well affirmative-action goals are met. "When others were talking about a desire to launch training programs for minorities in management," says Jay Harris, executive editor...
...secret, in essence, is a labor force that is industrious (a six-day workweek is standard), well educated (literacy rate: 93%), extraordinarily thrifty (savings rate: 35.8%) and modestly paid (average income of manufacturing employees: $409 a month). Parts of this spartan work ethic, which enables South Korea to produce everything from steel to videocassette recorders at some of the world's lowest costs, are beginning to change. In recent months there has been a wave of labor unrest, much of it centered on winning higher wages. Even so, most economists expect South Korea's industrial machine to continue to grow...
...discovered, it is tricky to find one's way around the Soviet Union. No wonder. In a startling admission last week, a sheepish-sounding Soviet official said the Kremlin has deliberately falsified virtually all maps of the country for the past 50 years on the orders of the secret police. Chief Soviet Cartographer Viktor Yashchenko told the newspaper Izvestia, "Roads and rivers were moved. City districts were tilted. Streets and houses were incorrectly indicated...