Word: britain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Re "Is the good life out of reach?" [Feb. 26], about the effect of a common currency on the cost of living in the European Union: Peter Gumbel made no mention of Britain, an E.U. country that has spurned the euro and kept its pound sterling. Wouldn't a comparison of economic conditions in Britain and those in other E.U. nations tell us something about whether the common currency is to blame for some of the ills mentioned? Alan Campbell, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
...their political cohabitation with Hamas. Other governments showed more flexibility, ranging from full recognition of the new government (Norway, Arab countries) through cautious optimism (the European Union, Russia, the United Nations) to the idea that it might be possible to deal with ministers who were not members of Hamas (Britain, and even the United States...
...similar picture across the Irish Sea. A report this year from the Von Hügel Institute in Cambridge suggested that, with the influx of East Europeans, Catholicism could soon be the dominant religion in Britain, which hasn't been the case since, oh, 1550. Construction on the 2012 Olympic sites in London is about to ramp up, providing more jobs. Many Poles in London are "well-qualified workmen with very good experience," says Adam Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who has invested in his own stoneware business in London and who hires mainly Poles. Tesco and Sainsbury's, the British supermarket...
That work ethic is being applied by young migrant workers--82% of the new East European workers in Britain are between 18 and 34--even if it means swapping desk jobs for building sites. Take Robert Domanski, 29, a law graduate from Warsaw University. In 2003 he followed several friends to Dublin. Today he logs 10 hours a day as a roofer and recently put money down on a new Dublin home. "In Poland I would have to work many, many years to have the same standard of living," he says. Wlodzimierz Oska, 44, a cleaner at the same construction...
...performing artists, and fair trade bananas—gripes reminiscent of Dell and Mylavarapu’s criticisms of Oxford. As Gerson put it, “American universities are extraordinarily consumer driven, with the student being king. The consumer culture of American universities has not been transported to Britain. You’d think that scholars would welcome that...