Word: presentable
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...major help. Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zealots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy. The country currently has 23 reactors in operation, providing 10% of its electricity, about the same percentage as in the U.S. But the Soviets intend to build fast. The present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year...
...newspaper of the Central Council of Trade Unions. In eleven years there, he moved up from copy boy to columnist. After two years as a radio commentator in Moscow, Dunayev was sent to London for five years as a broadcast correspondent. He returned home in 1972 to assume his present position with Moscow television...
Considering the fact that the 1917 Revolution was dedicated to the destruction of religion, the present standoff is something of a triumph for Orthodoxy.* The early Bolshevik regime confiscated church lands and abolished religious influence in schools. Intense atheism campaigns in the 1920s and '30s led to the imprisonment and death of thousands of priests and the desecration of countless churches. In the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, workers boasted that they burned 20,000 icons in socialist competition. By 1939, when Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, the Russian Orthodox Church had only 100 or so churches open throughout...
...paint a room? Offer him his wages in bottles. Vodka is also the ideal gift for minor officials from whom a small favor is needed. Since vodka flows as freely as the Volga in the U.S.S.R., why do so many Soviet citizens welcome it as either pay or present? For the regular drinker, vodka is expensive at $5.50 a half-liter. And the better brands, which are customarily used as currency and gifts, are often hard to find in stores...
...magazine. As the editor says in his introduction to an interview with David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, "Anyone who has read us for any period of time knows that we're up-front about everything and believe absolutely in freedom on the press. At times we present controversial articles, knowing full well we may catch some flack from someone, somewhere--and we welcome it. We firmly believe in presenting both sides of any issue, and so we will certainly print rebuttals to the following up-front interview...