Word: followings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Sometimes the President finds it difficult to follow that advice. Jordan has been urging Carter, for instance, to resist attacking Ronald Reagan, to leave such criticism to the media. But the President has already started condemning his opponent. Carter and Jordan have had another disagreement over the Republican candidate. To the President's acute discomfort, Jordan hopes that Reagan will move well ahead of Carter in the polls. In Jordan's view, the Californian still has never been studied closely, and once Reagan is out in front he will not be able to stand the pressure. Says Jordan...
...still pumps one-third of all OPEC production, it can no longer solely determine world oil policy. Prior to the Iranian revolution, Saudi Arabia virtually dictated crude prices because it had surplus production and could threaten to drive the cost of crude down if the other countries did not follow its lead. Now the Saudis are pumping oil at the rate of 9.5 million bbl. per day, which is 1 million more than before the fall of the Shah of Iran and near to their current capacity. They have thus lost their leverage over other cartel members. The Saudis could...
...more non-Slavic minorities join the ranks. Name-calling is common and fights are frequent. Another problem is the reluctance of Soviet officers to take initiative. They have been trained to prize iron discipline, they believe in conformity to a highly centralized command system, and?above all?they follow orders. But on a modern battlefield, communications can easily be cut and unit formations disrupted. Under these conditions, Soviet officers might not be able to take advantage of sudden opportunities and improvise winning tactics...
...days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian Roy Medvedev, published their now classic study on Soviet political psychiatry, A Question of Madness...
Noon in the Babushkinsky District People's Court in northern Moscow. The judge, a petite brunet in a striped blouse and skirt, enters the room. Two citizen-jurists called "people's assessors," an elderly man and a young woman, follow her to the high-backed chairs behind the bench. On the docket: Borisova vs. Borisov, a divorce case...