Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually compulsory bribe...
...most frustrating fixture of all, in Kira's view, is the tub-shower. "The only substantive reason for taking a tub bath is to relax," he maintains, "and yet it is precisely this that the vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different...
...parents' home and into a world of casual employment and even more casual friendships. For a while, she shared a house on a lake with two young men; somewhere along the line, she began experimenting with drugs. Several friends describe her as an occasional marijuana user and frequent pill-popper, who took "uppers" and "downers" to suit her moods...
...nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The applicant must prove he is not an alien, felon, drug user, or mental incompetent. In practice, a local police chief can deny a qualified applicant a license to carry firearms if he feels there is not sufficient need for it; anyone without a license or permit caught with a gun faces a mandatory year in jail...
...facilities, when combined with the old renovated models, will triple all space available for use at a cost per user much lower than might be expected. The University will be spending only about $100 per person annually for the 13,000 expected users, which seems a bargain to many of the people who will pay for the complex--the alumni--many of whom often have to pay more than $500 for club facilities in a big city. The Unversity is also being careful to tap only those donors specifically interested in sports, who would not otherwise give to academic fund...