Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Translated to a personal level, this means that day-to-day life in the Soviet Union is as difficult as ever. Not only are big consumer items like refrigerators and washing machines in short supply -- the average wait to buy the cheapest Soviet car is seven years -- but staples of everyday life are also scarce. Long lines snake into the street for such ordinary items as sausage, rice, coffee and candy...
...votes against the establishment and Gorbachev. But doesn't Gorbachev represent change? "Who gives a damn about change when you can't buy cheese and aspirin anymore? They've had their circus. Now we want bread." Izvestia reports that when miners in southern Russia lined up for hours to wait for their pay packets, they began to jeer, "And this is perestroika...
...important role is to provide an outlet for the grief and pain that victims of Stalin and their relatives have long had to keep to themselves. A steady stream of visitors from all over the Soviet Union seek out Memorial's cramped Moscow office. Many are elderly women who wait for as long as an hour and a half -- as if "they were lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial volunteer. One woman, hands trembling, offers to donate a ring that her husband fashioned for her in the prison camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back...
HRAAA director Robert P. Wolff '54 has often said he can't wait until Bok tries to tell Tutu why complete divestment is bad for South African Blacks. But if the issue is never considered, and Tutu rarely attends meetings, Wolff may never see his prophecy realized...
Today 12 more teams open their seasons. Tomorrow reality sets in. The pessimists take over. The dreaded "Wait 'Til Next Year" headlines hit the newsstands...