Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carry oxygen packs, since just a whiff of the invisible hydrosulfide gas that seeps from the ground can cause instant death. "In winter it is difficult to motivate anyone to work," says Larry Barthold, general manager of the joint venture that U.S. oil giant Chevron and the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan have formed to tap the wealth that lies beneath this forbidding site. "In summer everyone smells funny because of the antimosquito spray. And it's so hot, work does not continue at a steady pace...
...decree, giving the police broad new powers to conduct searches and detain suspects, drew a sharp outcry from civil libertarians and last week was overwhelmingly condemned by the Russian parliament. Yet it was a symbol of the desperation to which Moscow, the once proud seat of the Russian and Soviet empires, has been reduced...
...wake of World War II, the specter of inflation loomed over the American economy. And as every (now unemployed) Soviet economist can tell you the best response to such pressures is to institute wage-price controls, which is what the US did. Deprived of the ability to lure workers by raising money wages, businesses exploited a loophole in the controls: fringe benefits, such as health insurance, were not subject to the wage controls. In lieu of raising wages, employers added health insurance to compensation of effectively raise wages to attract the workforce they desired...
...private visit" last week with all the ceremony and trappings appropriate to a serving head of state. More important -- since Kim knew that Carter was in touch with Washington -- they talked for six hours. Then Carter and Kim shared a hug reminiscent of the one Carter gave Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at the SALT II signing...
...American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Writing in the National Interest, a foreign affairs quarterly, he warns that the crisis threatens to undermine the East's struggle to build free and stable societies: "Adjustment to life after communism is proving not just difficult but positively traumatic throughout the entire former Soviet bloc...