Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Before coming to Manerplaw, Ehtablay had never seen television or a movie. He had not even known they existed. At Manerplaw he got his first taste of both. As a special Army Day treat, the recruits are permitted to watch Rambo III on the VCR in the officers' barracks. Ehtablay sits on the floor, hugging his knees, and stares, mouth open, eyes bedazzled, at Sylvester Stallone's leading Afghan freedom fighters in a charge against Soviet tanks...
...will publish Khrushchev on Khrushchev, by Nikita's son Sergei, 55, an engineer in Moscow. This intimate portrait shows the deposed leader in his last years watching with dismay as his reforms are overturned. Now his son offers the most detailed and authoritative account to date of how the "special pensioner" was able to conduct his own defiant experiment in glasnost -- and why he had decided to brave the anger of his former comrades...
...entire Knesset. But the welcome mat has been impressive enough. Israel State Television briefly added Cyrillic subtitles to its evening newscasts, and the daily newspaper Ma'ariv plans to start a Russian-language edition this summer. Banks place Russian-language ads in their front windows and offer special inducements to newcomers. Ryzshinka, a yogurt-like Russian drink, is now available, packaged in a bottle sporting (yes) red and gold, the colors of the Soviet flag...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
...terms, broke. Deprived of its underpinning of foreign assets, sterling became a wobbly currency, held precariously upright by a stiff corset of exchange controls. As late as 20 years after the war, Britons were forbidden to take more than (pounds)50 out of the country. Direct investment overseas required special dispensation from the Bank of England; portfolio investment was virtually banned...