Word: union
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" The call to prayer echoes forth from a minaret in Tashkent, as it has from mosques throughout the 13 centuries of Islam. "Was it loud enough?" asks the mullah who will lead the prayers. That is an eminently reasonable question, since in the Soviet Union no muezzin is allowed to use a loudspeaker. The inquiry is also metaphorical. In the U.S.S.R.'s fourth largest city and leading Islamic center, as elsewhere across the nation, believers are cautiously regaining their public voice after an oppressively enforced silence...
After the U.S.S.R. put out the welcome mat two years ago to attract joint ventures with Western firms, hundreds of business executives rushed to Moscow. Many of them inked deals to produce such wares as shoes and pizza, computer software and fertilizer. But doing business in the Soviet Union has presented more challenges than capitalists imagined. The road to perestroika's pot of gold is filled with bureaucratic potholes...
...because we don't like our life and we hope to live on into the next life. It would be nice to think that America has thrown open its doors and is waiting for us all to come over. But that's not the way it is. The Soviet Union has thrown open its doors, and it seems like all America has come here on a visit. So it goes...
Inefficiency is so commonplace in the Soviet Union that we were piqued by tales of a dramatic transformation under way at the Lenin Factory in Michurinsk. The plant, which makes auto parts, had gained national notoriety in 1986 after criminal investigators broke up an organized-crime ring trading in stolen merchandise. Now we heard the Lenin works had been "leased out" to kooperativshchiki...
...drab room at a Moscow community center listen quietly. Over the next hour and a half, most of them, giving only their first names, will stand under the bare fluorescent lighting and make the same confession. It is a painful admission to make anywhere, but especially in the Soviet Union, where drinking is legendary and individual accountability has decayed. This is the daily meeting of Moscow Beginners, the first antidrinking group for Soviet citizens that is registered with Alcoholics Anonymous...