Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, many of the societal changes forged by the Revolution have already been abandoned in an effort to survive without Soviet assistance. The Cuban tourism industry, for instance, one of the few bright spots in the island's economic fiasco, is closed off to Cuban citizens. Cubans cannot visit the Tropicana, eat at a restaurant, or go to the nicest strips of Varadero beach, which today is used instead by Spanish, Canadian and German tourists...
REAGAN: "((Grenada)) was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time...
...most accounts, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had a miserable job during the last two years of his tenure. But apparently retirement, at least financially, was even worse. His pension: $1.65 a week. That pittance has been boosted to the comparative bonanza of $409. The source of the generosity was Gorby's old rival, Russian President Boris Yeltsin. A rumored explanation: Russians believe Yeltsin is looking ahead to his own days on the dole...
...Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He tells his students, all within a subway ride of Wall Street, to think globally if they can't find work at home. "Their skills could be put to better use in less developed places like Mexico and the former Soviet Union," Kahan argues. "If my students ask me where they should look for jobs, I say, 'Learn Spanish and go to Mexico. Try the unconventional. Don't just look in the New York Times for a job; look in the Economist."' And Kahan thinks worldwide career searches are likely...
...Tokyo and Hong Kong but China, / Vietnam and Cambodia as well; Latin America, especially Mexico, which, thanks to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year, has become a potentially major market for U.S. goods and expertise; and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, where capitalism is breaking out all over, often in unpredictable ways. "Only an entrepreneurial student is willing to walk into so unstructured an environment," says consultant Hanigan. "You have the cowboys going to Eastern Europe...