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Word: lasota (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After this year's flooding and low crop yields, many Poles have a premonition that things can only get worse," says Irena Lasota-Zabludowska, 35, an emigre from Warsaw, now studying at Columbia University in New York City "People are beginning to say, 'This winter we're going to starve.' " In a society where the trade-off for the lack of individual freedom was to have been a steadily improving standard of living, the potential for a political explosion is always present. Explains Teacher Kowalska "The mood in the country is worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Poland: A Three-Class Society | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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