Word: soviet
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Does that mean a trade war this summer? Probably not. The reasons are reminiscent, in a minor key, of why war gamers always thought the U.S. and the Soviet Union would not get into a deliberate nuclear exchange: the consequences would be too awful to contemplate. The Japanese could shut down the U.S. auto industry, which is dependent on some Japanese parts like alternators. By dumping the U.S. Treasury bonds they have bought heavily, the Japanese could also drive up American interest rates disastrously. The U.S., by clamping down hard on the $119 billion of Japanese exports it buys every...
Forcing prisoners to do hard--the hardest--labor is not an action we generally associate with today's American penal system. Soviet prisons in Siberia and German labor camps during World War II come to mind much more quickly. In most American prisons, convicts can opt to work various jobs for small wages. It has been many years since Robert Eliot Burns uncovered the horrors of chain gangs in Georgia: long lines of men chained together, endless hours in the unbearable sun and whippings for workers who did not satisfy supervisors...
...entire world view was contained within the prism of endless conflict with the Soviet Union," Dukakis said...
Redeveloping countries in Eastern Europe are seeing more of some Harvard professors than anyone in Cambridge. Perennial globetrotter Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, professor of economics, often lends his help overseas. Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel is another of the many Harvard professors and affiliates who have advised former Soviet republics in recent years...
...that, Iran is still a much less fervid, single-minded country than it was under Khomeini. Suffering as it does from a discredited ideology, unbridled corruption and a ruined economy, it most nearly resembles the Soviet Union in its last years. At the moment there is no realistic alternative to the revolutionary institutions that govern Iran, but in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s there was no obvious alternative to the Communist Party, and still it collapsed. Moreover, Iran is threatened by the pull of Western culture and democracy. Iranians crave the prosperity they see in the West...