Word: shopped
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...uniform beyond their draft term. The backbone of the Soviet military, as in most nations, is its corps of 400,000 commissioned officers and 1 million noncoms. The gulf between draftee and officer is enormous. NCOs live with their families in relatively comfortable housing either on or off base, shop in commissaries carrying special food and goods and have one month of vacation each year. They earn comparatively high wages; the Soviet equivalent of a staff sergeant with ten years of experience makes 60 rubles ($90) a month?roughly what a high school teacher is paid...
These political leaders, along with other Soviet elitists, enjoy the use of country dachas, yachts and Black Sea vacation resorts. While ordinary Soviet citizens queue up for scarce consumer goods, members of what one Soviet journalist calls the "Communist nobility" shop in special stores for caviar, French cognac, Swiss chocolates and Japanese stereo sets. They patronize tailors, hairdressers and cleaners who serve them exclusively. Lesser privileges are enjoyed by thousands of middle-level managers, local party cadres and other important citizens...
...left." At its simplest, it is nothing more than passing on to the local butcher tickets for a popular soccer game or concert in return for a good cut of meat; tipping off the plumber about a shipment of shoes that is due to arrive in a shop as payment for fixing a leaking pipe; or holding down a second job as a furniture mover or apartment painter. Na levo can and does, however, also extend to smuggling consumer goods in from the West, running a hidden factory, stealing state-owned materials and skipping out from work on a state...
...made his first big hit, Shop Around, when he was 20. It launched Robinson, the group he helped form, the Miracles, and the upstart Detroit record company that released it on a wing and a prayer, Motown. In the decades since Smokey passed along some tuneful romantic advice ("My mama told me/ You better shop around"), Motown changed from a phenomenon to a corporation. Smokey became vice president of artist relations. He named his son Berry after his friend Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown, and christened his daughter Tamla after the Motown subsidiary for which Smokey still records. When...
...wasting a lot of time waiting around for my wife to have facials, so I decided to have them too. Now I look forward not only to what it does for my skin, but what it does to relax me." Until two years ago, Klinger's shop in Beverly Hills had an inconspicuous side entrance for men. But now the male customers are willing to march right up to the front door...