Word: sloganeered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin has been thinking of a considerably weakened role for his former rival in a future bare-bones Union: Gorbachev glad-handing visiting heads of state, Gorbachev keeping the country's electric grid in working order or Gorbachev making certain the trains run on time. As one brazen Russian slogan put it, "Misha, don't forget under whose flag you were rescued...
...blank windows and locked doors of the vast gray building that is the headquarters of the vanishing Soviet Communist Party. Laughter and cheers erupt as a 5-year-old boy, encouraged by his father, urinates on the wall. A graffitist has scrawled DOSHLI (We've come this far) -- the slogan of Soviet soldiers fighting to victory over Germany in World...
...once again, he did all that, and more. In his attempt to break the ministries' stranglehold on the economy, Gorbachev made decentralization one of the cornerstones of perestroika. Under the slogan of demokratizatsiya, he created conditions around the country for popular local leaders, frequently outspoken nationalists, to defeat Moscow's minions. As a result of glasnost, the Kremlin faced up to some of the uglier truths of Soviet history, including the illegality of Stalin's annexation of the three Baltic republics...
...system. Borrowed from motorcycle design, the technology guarantees aging cyclists a smoother ride. Last year Specialized introduced Air Lock, a self-sealing tire that eliminates fear of flats. Still trying to grow fast enough to stay ahead of the big boys, pioneer Sinyard drives his troops with the company slogan "Innovate or Die!" That's a fitting sentiment in an industry whose forebears included Wilbur and Orville Wright...
...Seven hundred years, that's enough." So went the slogan of some 300 left- leaning intellectuals protesting ceremonies for a nation they consider too rich, too smug and too hypocritical to rate any respect for its age. Even the voters of the central Swiss cantons -- loosely the equivalent of America's 13 original states -- opted against any spectacular celebrations. They judged it an environmentally harmful and needless extravagance...