Word: enough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...generation has lived through revolution, civil war, the transition from capitalism to socialism, the Great Patriotic War, the development and strengthening of socialism. I was lucky enough to be part of the process, from the smallest cell of our party organization right on up to the Politburo, and to have been involved in our country's social and political reconstruction ((he uses the word perestroika...
...Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts." At that time the Communist Party in France was large and powerful enough to have real political influence. It also had arms caches from...
...classic Gorbachev performance. After allowing the national parliament to wrangle all week long over the merits of various plans to renovate the economy, the Soviet President decided he had heard enough debate from the toilworn legislators. Late on Friday afternoon Deputy Yuri Golik, a close Gorbachev ally, proposed, without prior discussion, a resolution that would give the President almost total power to overhaul the enfeebled economy by decree...
Talk about adding insult to injury. As if the initial S&L scandal were not outrageous enough, the government reports that, thanks to sweetheart deals handed to federally subsidized fat cats, the bailout program will cost taxpayers tens of billions more than it might have...
Iraqi missiles would not have to blow up many of the oil facilities; scattering enough poison gas and anthrax or botulism powder to make it impossible for workers to labor there would also disrupt production. Says a U.S. analyst: "With a shortfall of only 1 million bbl. of oil a day, now the price has gone to $35 ((from $18 before the invasion of Kuwait)). Imagine the impact of the loss of a big portion of Saudi Arabia's 7 million bbl. a day." Conceivably, the price could reach as high as $100, far more than enough to cause both...