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...reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk, the likely Prime Minister in a coalition government, said last night: "I am the happiest...
Delhi's strategy is threefold. Its initial overtures to Burma's military leaders came as India faced a growing insurgency in its northeast. Many of the rebel groups in that region are based and train across the border in Burma. As India has grown friendlier with Burma's generals the two countries have worked together - with some limited success - on eradicating the northeastern insurgents...
...almost none of those high-margin items in 1999 but are now filled with shoes, bags and jewelry. Accessories bring in about half of the company's revenue. In addition, there are less expensive clothes, which Hermann insists are not a second line, layered into the stores. The friendlier-priced "capsule" collection includes basic pieces like jersey evening dresses and safari jackets that won't crease in the latest...
...think it's become a lot harder to raise children. When I was growing up, the culture was much friendlier. Drugs weren't an issue, and there weren't the sexual pressures on the kids in high school that there are now. Parents have to work against the culture to raise wonderful kids...
...victory over Russian Bolshevik forces in 1920 - the Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk, a prospective Prime Minister, did his own bit for Polish patriotism by trying (unsuccessfully) to enter Belarus to celebrate the holiday with Polish nationals there. Economists, for their part, say that while the Civic Platform is friendlier toward business than the current government, it still may not have the political will to effect the tax-system and public-spending reforms that Poland desperately needs. "Economic conditions won't deteriorate, but it's hard to say whether they will improve," says Jacek Wisniewski, chief economist at Raiffeisen Bank...