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Ed Markey: “When the Soviet Union was falling, Gorbachev called it 'perestroika,' we had a restructure.”

On the recordMarch 31, 2014
When the Soviet Union was falling, Gorbachev called it 'perestroika,' we had a restructure.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey compares the current changes in the industry to historical restructuring.

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