Word: tractor
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...among all 12 countries. Across Western Europe, an estimated 63,000 customs workers found themselves looking for new jobs. As Retegui walked glumly through Irun's deserted halls, only a single clerk was at work, clearing a salmon shipment from Sweden, a non-E.C. country. In the distance, tractor trailers thundered down the highway, barely slowing as they approached the crossing. "Who could believe we would be working flat out through December," said union official Ricardo Urtizberea, "and then suddenly find ourselves without...
...Soviet workers are stirred by an almost religious enthusiasm; in spite of shortages, difficulties, hardships. The Stalingrad tractor factory was finished six months ahead of schedule...
Scheduled next for the auction block are Intourist hotels, state-owned hard- currency shops and 5,600 major factories, including the Vladimir tractor factory in central Russia...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...
Civic Union's avowed aim is to become a "constructive opposition," offering an "alternative program" to the free-market policies pursued by Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. In practice, though, its focus is on propping up the aging, inefficient steel mills, tractor works and other state- owned industrial dinosaurs. Gaidar and others insist that they must be allowed to go out of business, despite the immediate pain, if Russia is ever to have an efficient, modern economy. But Civic Union contends that the resulting mass unemployment would simply be too great, and that argument seems to be converting some reformers...