Word: grazyna
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...rhetoric about the dangers of capitalism, Poland's economy is booming, with gdp growth topping 6% last year, and unemployment finally beginning to fall. In time, economic growth, if it continues, may take the edge off the fear-based politics that has taken hold in Poland. Back in Ozarow, Grazyna Bialowas admits that since her beloved factory closed, the town has actually improved, with a Best Western hotel and several new factories springing up on the main street. There is even a new church. Bialowas is not as angry as she was, she concedes. But she's still voting...
Back in 1969, when Grazyna Bialowas was 18 years old, she and a friend planted two rows of trees to beautify the state-owned cable factory that was the center of her world in the town of Ozarow, outside Warsaw. The trees have since flourished, but not the factory. In 1999, an entrepreneur who owned other cable factories in Poland bought it and, a few years later, shut it down, driving some 1,500 people out of work. Bialowas, who had toiled there for 35 years, believes the factory would still be open if Poland had been run by "honest...
Judy T. Greenberg ’07 said she once had a crush on a boy with “massively asymmetrical” thumbs, breaking with conventional wisdom that symmetry is beauty. But a new study by Radcliffe fellow Grazyna Jasienska goes one step further, linking hand symmetry in women not only to beauty—but to greater fertility...
Mather House. "The Other Half Speaks," a concert of keyboard music by women composers of the last three centuries. Pianist Elain Greenfield performs works by Clara Schumann, Marianne von Martinez, Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Amy Marcy Beach and Grazyna Baceqicz. Mather House, Senior Common Room, 3:30 p.m. Free...
...million tons more coal under martial law than during the period that Solidarity existed, Eugeniusz's family has yet to receive any for this winter. With temperatures already dropping below freezing, the only warmth in the high-ceilinged apartment comes from a small electric heater. Neither Eugeniusz nor Grazyna have much hope that the situation will improve. "Things might be better when our son is our age," says Grazyna...