Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...glasnost and perestroika," said Terry A. Donovan, associate director of IOP. "To have these people here at this particular time in history will present students with a great opportunity to learn about changes taking place in the Soviet Union...
Khrushchev, who will be in Moscow until joining the IOP in late October, has just written a book-- Khrushchev on Khrushchev--that describes his father's tenure at the helm of the Soviet Union and relates those years to the present rule of Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Sturua, a member of Nikita Kruschev's "brain trust" and a journalist with Izvestia for the past 40 years, will run a seminar called "Perestroika--Past, Present, and Future...
...recession would become a certainty, and it could easily be deep. Experts at the Institute for International Economics in Washington calculate that $50 oil would cause "negative growth" of 3% to 4%, with a jump in unemployment well above the present 5.5%. Inflation would leap to a 9% to 10% annual rate, from around 4% to 4.5%. In Western Europe and Japan there might be some continued prosperity, since those economies have been rising much more rapidly than the U.S.'s. Even so, I.I.E. director Fred Bergsten predicts that "growth would slow by 2 or 3 percentage points, and inflation...
...well. A failure to defeat him now would leave open the possibility that he would re-emerge, equipped with nuclear arms and able to shut off the world oil supply for political reasons. As costly as putting down Saddam would be today, coping with the menace he might present in the future would be even more dire...