Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales of manufactured products to what it envisions as a vast market in China. But things will not work out quite that way. Communism will collapse in China, clearing the way for the powerhouse of Taiwan to join Hong Kong as a special economic zone of the Chinese motherland...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Movements de Petrouchka...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...
...Tokyo's terms: the islands returned in exchange for a formal peace treaty, never signed after World War II, and financial support for the comatose Russian economy. Opposed is an unruly chorus of nationalist politicians who threaten to overthrow President Boris Yeltsin if he surrenders any more of the "motherland." They are allied with conservative military men, still smarting from the "loss" of Eastern Europe, who fear that return of the islands will threaten the defense of the Russian Far East...
...black reporter recalls the years he spent on the continent he considers his motherland...