Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne...
...legged city wolves are on the prowl. What diplomats and journalists routinely call economic reform in Russia is now more reminiscent of wolves tearing at the carcass of a giant beast. The new banking magnates--oligarchs as they are often known--are fighting over the remains of the Soviet Union. There are very rich pickings: oil fields, natural gas, precious minerals and strategic metals. The people who end up with the largest hunks of the carcass will be powerful figures indeed, both here and abroad...
Ellison also compared Microsoft's delivery of its word processing software to the kind of market planning that occurred in the former Soviet Union...
Holub's most ascerbic essays lambast this spurious Soviet science, in which party-approved researchers concoct absurd theories to please their superiors. In their best form, these essays take the form of veiled political satire, an art perfected by the Czechs...
...hardly a secret to the top Soviet army brass and political bosses," Baranets told TIME, "that the U.S.S.R. assisted Iraq in developing its chemical and bacteriological weapons. According to some data, several extremely well-paid Russian chemical-warfare experts still work in Iraq under assumed names." When sanctions first went into effect, says Baranets, the Russian government shut off shipments to countries on the U.N. embargo list. Later, "controls weakened and slackened, while economic considerations took over the political ones. As of the second half of 1993, Russia resumed sending major military supplies to the Middle East. They used...