Word: touche
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...aluminum as well as the extraction of gold ?the two metals that respectively symbolize the modern and the primitive strengths of an economy. The Soviet Union's farms produce more barley, cotton fiber, wheat, oats and rye than those of any other country and?an incongruous sweet touch ?more sugar and honey. Huge petroleum reserves, second only to those of Saudi Arabia, have made the country self-sufficient in energy, although that could change by the middle of this decade because of the difficulty in finding and exploiting oil and gas in remote and inhospitable expanses. By numerous...
Will Moscow's two-track policy of Russification and Sovietization enable the U.S.S.R. to survive as the world's last multinational empire? Some Western experts, with more than a touch of wishful thinking in their speculation, predict that the U.S.S.R. will come apart along its Muslim seams in the south and east. Others, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, also look for trouble in Eastern Europe, particularly in Brzezinski's native Poland. Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer agrees. Until now, he says, the Soviets have been fortunate that uprisings have broken out in only one country at a time...
...White House admits that Jimmy Carter may have drifted out of touch with some economic realities by being cooped up in the Rose Garden because of the hostages in Iran. That was why his speech in Ohio about "turning the tide" seemed out of sync with the alarming slide into recession...
...doesn't touch my outer skin...
Donat-Cattin resigned from his post last week "to be at liberty to answer the insinuations." So far he has not been very successful. At first he insisted that he had not been in touch with his son for a couple of years; later he conceded that he had contacted him through Sandalo. He also admitted that he had gone to see Cossiga to learn details about his son's case, but denied that he got any solid information from the Prime Minister. The warning about his son's arrest warrant, he claims, came in an anonymous letter...