Word: developing
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...faster reforms than Gorbachev proposed. A Yeltsin victory could mark the beginning of the end for Gorbachev's brand of perestroika. Russia contains 75% of the Soviet Union's land, half of its people and most of its natural resources, which many Russians complain are being used to develop the other 14 republics. If Yeltsin and his radical supporters take over, they pledge to wrest control of those resources from the central government. While they do not favor actual secession, they take a literal stand on Russia's claim to sovereignty. Said Yeltsin: "Russia is a state, not a republic...
...more than 13% of Hungary's health budget; at least 1 out of 17 Hungarian deaths stems from environmental causes. Around the East German industrial center of Leipzig, life expectancy is six years less than the national average. In the nearby town of Espenhain, 4 out of 5 children develop chronic bronchitis or heart ailments by the age of seven. Children in northern Bohemia, the heart of Czechoslovakia's industrial region, are taken out of the area for up to a month each year as a health measure...
Bush's assertion of NATO's pre-eminence is coupled with an awareness that the alliance must demonstrate flexibility as the cold war winds down and security arrangements are reconsidered. Thus Bush announced last week that the U.S. would not develop and install a new generation of short-range nuclear missiles and nuclear artillery in Western Europe. He also offered to advance mutual-reduction talks with Moscow over the fate of the 700 aging Lance missiles already deployed by the U.S. and opposing missiles on the Soviet side, but only after the signing of a conventional-forces treaty that would...
...divide. They feel that the new Germany must be "embedded" in a joint security system -- NATO, at least for now -- just as it is in the European Community. The Europeans count on America's strategic nuclear umbrella to keep the Germans from reversing their treaty promises not to develop nuclear weapons...
Council members backing the position--all members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--said the appointment of a new top administrator from outside Cambridge will help the city's police force develop new ways of fighting crime...