Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American knowledge about Soviet society was more pressing than ever. Says World Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the project: "I hope readers get from this a sense of the extraordinary complexity of the Soviet Union. It's not a gray, faceless monolith but an enormously vital country, with eleven time zones, diverse races and nationalities, and more than 100 languages...
This demographic time bomb is ticking away slowly inside the Soviet economy. Further industrialization is increasingly vital to Soviet economic progress; most factories, however, are in the western part of the country, while in largely undeveloped Central Asia overpopulation is accompanied by underemployment. So far, Soviet economic planners have not come up with a way of moving either the industrial base or the growing work force so as to bring them together...
...seem justified by the legitimate need to defend itself; second, it has begun in recent years brazenly and disruptively to project its power into the Third World; and third, Soviet encroachments in mineral-rich Africa, the oil-rich Middle East and the sea lanes of the Pacific threaten the vital economic interests of the Western democracies and Japan. The Soviet Union is seen as exploiting?if not actually instigating?new problems for the capitalist world. "The Soviet tendency in recent years to take advantage of targets of opportunity?incrementally, deliberately, persistently?raises questions in Congress and among the public about...
...external priority is gathering Western military technology secrets in order to avoid costly parallel research and development at home. A secondary but nonetheless vital concern is the collecting of political intelligence and the manipulation and recruitment of foreigners who might influence their governments' policies. Though the CIA, according to U.S. intelligence specialists, is far superior to the KGB in "comint" and "elint" (communications and electronic intelligence), the Soviets excel in "humint" (intelligence gathering through human contact). This was spectacularly demonstrated in Bonn last year, when West German counterintelligence finally caught up with a KGB agent functioning as a madam...
...TIME Board of Economists met last week in Manhattan to review the nation's quickly deteriorating business situation. After looking at the economy's vital signs, the experts concluded that the recession of 1980 will be longer, deeper and more painful than was expected only a few weeks ago. Unemployment threatens to climb to a peak of 9% or more by early 1981, matching and perhaps even surpassing the 9% jobless rate that was briefly touched during the 1973-75 slump. Next month's release of growth figures for the second quarter is expected to show...