Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...refuge for the down- and-out. Ptasinska, for example, has just borrowed nearly $1,000 from a privately financed special fund to set up a small business ironing sheets for hospitals and other institutions. She is counting on earning $300 in a good month, enough to make repayments and help support her family...
...parliament. The two leaders are public antagonists and private enemies. Yeltsin calls Gorbachev indecisive and accuses him of "continuous compromise and half measures." Gorbachev calls Yeltsin "politically illiterate." As de facto president of Russia, by far the largest and most important of the 15 Soviet republics, Yeltsin can help either sabotage or salvage Gorbachev's economic and political programs. In a year or two he may challenge him for national leadership...
...country's oil and 70% of its gas, would sell to domestic customers at world prices, which are about five times higher than those now charged to other republics. Yeltsin says signing agreements with the Baltic states would be a top priority, hinting that he might help Lithuania bypass the economic blockade that Gorbachev has enforced to halt its drive for independence. These ideas are radical by any Soviet definition and put Yeltsin directly on a collision course with Gorbachev...
...Sunbelters should not buy Astroturf just yet. Help may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a strain of grass so resistant to drought that in some locales, it may not need to be watered at all. The university's test patch, at a research center near Fort Lauderdale, is thick and green, even though it has received no water, except for an occasional rainfall, since March...
...Soviet leader buttonholed Bush again at the state dinner Thursday night and argued that if the U.S. President was serious about wanting perestroika to succeed, he must provide economic help. He made a third try at a one-on-one session Friday morning. This time Bush yielded. He told Gorbachev he would sign a trade treaty but would not send it to Congress until the U.S.S.R. passed the emigration law. He added that he expected Gorbachev to show the same understanding of U.S. concerns about Lithuania that the White House was showing for the Kremlin's economic needs, but apparently...