Word: trapeznikov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace. As a leading Soviet economist, Academician Vadim Trapeznikov says, "One of the mainsprings of progress is the comparison of the quality of goods with that of the products of other domestic and foreign firms. This is particularly apparent in the defense industry, where there is a permanent and inevitable comparison with foreign technology...
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