Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...says. "It is easy to carry on theft when a war is on and the police are practically out of action. We noticed just who was leading popular-front movements in the regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh: the director of a lucrative car-servicing center, the head of a local food emporium. They profit by the disorders to carry on their business. If we can't jail them, let's at least intern them in a sanatorium on the Volga River. We have been cutting off the tail without getting at the source...
Kupreyev also feels that censorship should have been imposed in the region. "It's not democratic, but the local media are to blame for inciting people," he contends. "The Azerbaijani TV station in Shusha ((a town in Nagorno-Karabakh)) broadcast interviews with Azerbaijani refugees. I heard one commentator say, 'Don't worry, the time will soon come when we'll give you a better house in Stepanakert than you used to have.' We said let's close the station. Soviet television gains nothing from it, and friendship between peoples will gain. But it didn't happen...
...account of the long siege of Malta during the war is an eloquent memorial to the courage of a population. In India, where Reg Greer visited briefly, she gives a beguiling description of the pastimes of women in a comfortable family. One lady chauffeured her to Devlali to investigate local records sources, though she was innocent of auto gears and seemed to know only how the horn worked...
Unlike most Western companies doing business in the Soviet Union, McDonald's is catering not just to foreign tourists and businessmen but also to the Soviet public. The first Moscow-based restaurant will deal in rubles, a shrewd strategy that is expected to attract local customers, who have grown increasingly impatient at seeing quality products on sale for foreign currency only. But because rubles are not readily convertible to foreign currency, McDonald's will have to find ways to take home some of its Soviet profits. As a result, McDonald's will open another Moscow restaurant next year in which...
After the Lewis incident, Barry is said to have joked among friends that they would never again see him in a local hotel. Why he went to the Vista to visit Moore remains a mystery. For now, however, Washington's mayor is checked into a very different residential facility. For 28 days, his routine will be filled with exercise, tough-love group therapy and chores such as vacuuming and mopping...