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  2. Scissors Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Scissors: retail and wholesale prices of agricultural and industrial goods in the Soviet Union July 1922 to November 1923. The Scissors Crisis was an incident in 1923 in the economy of the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP), when there was a widening gap ("price scissors") between industrial and agricultural prices. The term ...

  3. Václav Havel - Wikipedia

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    Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ⓘ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. [1] [2] Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

  4. Price scissors - Wikipedia

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    The most common example of price scissors is from the Soviet Union: agricultural prices continued to fall while industrial goods prices rose "Price scissors" refers to an economic phenomenon when for a certain group or sector of productive population, the overall valuation from their production for sale outside this group drops below the valuation of the demand of this group for goods produced ...

  5. Scissors mechanism - Wikipedia

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    A scissors mechanism uses linked, folding supports in a criss-cross 'X' pattern. [1] The scissor mechanism is a mechanical linkage system used to create vertical motion or extension. It consists of a series of interconnected, folding supports that resemble the shape of a pair of scissors, hence its name.

  6. Scissors - Wikipedia

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    In lower-quality scissors, the cutting edges are not particularly sharp; it is primarily the shearing action between the two blades that cuts the material. In high-quality scissors, the blades can be both extremely sharp, and tension sprung – to increase the cutting and shearing tension only at the exact point where the blades meet.

  7. The Power of the Powerless - Wikipedia

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    The topic of how best to resist a totalitarian system occupied Havel's mind after the launch of Charter 77. This became the crux of his essay, which was one of the most "original and compelling pieces of political writing" to come out of the Eastern Bloc, according to Havel biographer, John Keane.

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