Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible link between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...
Moreover, as a matter of policy, prices for some goods are set below the cost of making them. Vladimir Sitnin, chairman of the Soviet Union's state price committee, notes: "There is some relation between production costs and prices, but not necessarily a direct one. Retail prices have a social objective, varying from low prices for schoolbooks to higher prices for liquor...
Very Tough. The first working meeting came that evening, when the President was ushered into Brezhnev's Kremlin office for an hour-and-ten-minute session under a picture of Lenin, with Brezhnev's interpreter as the only extra person. Later the two men went to St. Vladimir Hall for a reception attended by top Soviet and American officials. The Russians were lined up on one side of the room, the Americans on the other, and Brezhnev took Nixon first down the Russian side and then down the American. Kissinger stood at the end, and when...
...Kremlin's St. Catherine Hall, which once served as the Empress's throne room. But Brezhnev, who had been chatting with reporters, appeared as good-natured as he had the day before. After two hours, the two delegations broke for lunch, then moved to St. Vladimir Hall, an ornate room of pink, white and gold, where they signed agreements to share research into energy, housing and heart disease...
...Shenker never lets his light touch get our of hand, and he keeps a firm grip on even the most elusive conversation (Shenker's word games tend to be infectious). Suiting his style to subject, he rises to the sublimity of Vladimir Nabokov ("Q. What struggles these days for pride of trace in your mind?"), and caters to the acidity of Gore Vidal ("Have you read any bad books lately?"). Mark Van Doren's answers "seemed to demand the topography of poetry," and so Shenker has reproduced them in verse form. Only once, in an interview with Eugene Ionesco, does...