Word: lech
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...past, Castro, 76, managed to neutralize dissidents before they became globally known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening...
...Mediocre academic and world-class lech Professor Peter Y. Block has allegedly been holding office hours in his pants. Said student Valerie C. Perry ’05 from within Block’s Dockers, “And they say Yale sucks?...
When politicians leave office, they tend to spend their time flying around the world giving speeches on things like globalization and nation building. In other words, doing pretty much the same stuff they did when they had a job. But LECH WALESA, 59, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis...
...surprising success of Poland's Gdynia Shipyard Group was featured in the July 16, 2001, issue of TIME Global Business. The group, which owned the yard where Lech Walesa led his worker's revolt, had shed its communist legacy to adopt market-economy practices such as product specialization and round-the-clock shifts. Now scandal at a competing shipyard may threaten Gdynia's success. The Stocznia Szczecinska shipyard, Poland's second largest shipbuilder, was forced in June to declare bankruptcy. Six of the company's former executives were arrested and charged with criminal mismanagement and fraud that...
Sometimes when a humble man steps into history's spotlight, he is transformed, and history with him. So it was when Lech Walesa, an unemployed electrician from the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland, formed the labor union Solidarity and led its struggle against the country's repressive communist government, demanding a series of democratic reforms. The regime at first made concessions and then cracked down harshly, arresting Walesa and outlawing Solidarity. But the movement could not be stifled, nor could Walesa. By the end of the '80s the government would collapse and Walesa would be elected President of Poland...