Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Indeed, shortage of labor is a serious problem for all sectors of the Soviet economy. Employment in industry is now growing at only .7% annually, as compared with 1.8% per year...
...different kind of oil problem: getting at a bountiful supply...
...basic cause of the Soviet energy problem is geography. The bulk of the nation's population-and most of its industry-is in the western half of the country. The major oil reserves, as well as the sites most likely to yield new supplies, lie thousands of miles away, in Siberia. Getting the oil from where it is to where it is needed requires more railroads and pipelines than the U.S.S.R. possesses or will be able to build in the near future...
Others find such an approach shortsighted. They believe that the U.S. should help the Soviets to expand and exploit their fuel reserves. Says Theodore Shabad, a U.S. expert on Soviet natural resources: "It is not in our interests to create an energy problem for the Soviets; it is in our interest that they be self-sufficient." American attempts to deny the Soviets much-needed drilling technology have not been totally successful. After U.S. firms were stopped from making sales, the Soviets turned to Italian and French firms for the equipment...
...call comes in to the central ambulance station at 10 Koptelsky Lane. One of 34 telephone operators notes on a lavender slip of paper the time, name, address and problem-chest pains and dizziness. The slip is relayed to a second room of dispatchers who stay in constant touch with the 36 ambulance substations in the city. Most substations serve a radius of two to three miles, but there are specialty brigades in such disciplines as cardiology that cover the city at large...