Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, the story is different. The USSR's smaller economy has been unable to support both a military buildup and a high standard of living. Although the Soviets devoted up to twice as much of their (smaller) GNP to the conventional and nuclear arms race, the U.S. could match this expenditure and still have enough "spare GNP" for toasters, cars, VCRs and CD players...
...People understand that educational change is necessary, but the success or failure of this is linked to the success or failure of perestroika," said Dr. Nikolai D. Nikandrov, who is general secretary of the presidium of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences--roughly the equivalent to the U.S. Education Department...
...increase the annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will be able to catch up on everything from software to peripherals in a new quarterly called PC World USSR, a spin-off of Massachusetts-based IDG Communications' PC World that will incorporate articles written by Soviet technical journalists...
...USSR also desperately needs to reorganize its agricultural system, Shmelyov said...
...USSR should also move its manufacturing priorities away from industrial production and toward developing high technology, Shmelyov said...