Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid 1,000 rubles ($1,600) for a Panasonic tape deck. "And we have better food because we shop at the open market, where prices are higher," he points out. Is their bank account growing? "It's not our aim to save money," says Tanya. "We want to spend as much...
...Soviet Union. Yakovlev, who last fall visited the U.S. for the first time to learn more about foreign trade, pays himself 1,500 rubles a month ($2,400), five times as much as he made as a journalist. His most enviable perk is a company car and driver. "I spend a lot of money every month on clothes and fancy restaurants," he says. "I have no bank account. No savings." Consumers have little incentive to save because such major expenses as housing and education are subsidized and bank accounts pay interest of only...
...Moscow Beginners tell how they were forced to spend terms of up to two years in prisons reserved for those who cannot be cured by the hospitals. There, boredom was punctuated only occasionally by days of forced labor in understaffed factories. Even the government has admitted that these jails are not likely to keep alcoholics on the wagon...
Seeking to advance the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu to Harvard's Board of Overseers, about 15 Divinity School students yesterday declared "sanctuary" in Memorial Church, saying they planned to spend two days fasting and praying there...
...spent my life almost constantly devoted to mathematics--with the exception of spring 1969 when I worked full time on the strike. Sometimes when the U. S. government does something particularly nasty, my first inner reaction is a fear that I'll have to spend another semester on politics."--Robert MacPherson...