Word: miskolc
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...Central European countries like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, making everything from light bulbs to high-end Audi automobiles. Last month, for example, German auto-parts maker Bosch said it would eliminate 830 jobs at its factory in Hildesheim, Germany, and move production to a new plant in Miskolc, Hungary. The move will reduce the workforce at the German factory by almost half. Some executives are thinking about even more radical moves, such as transferring not just their production facilities but their entire companies. Hans Brach, who owns an air-conditioning company that employs 50 workers, says...
...hails from Miskolc, the second-largest city in Hungary. For the past eight years she lived in Budapest, where she worked for a bank. After completing her master's degree in economics, Karossy decided she wanted to study abroad...
...from Miskolc," said the stranger. "We escaped yesterday morning, just before the Russian tanks closed in. My name's on the police list. In the name of Hungary, let us hide here!" By this time, everybody could see it was Sam Lawrence, editor in a publishing firm. He kept sneaking a look at the script he had in his hand, but he was grim about his part...
Debrecen, Dunapentele and Szolnok, no wheel turned. The coal mines were deserted. At Salgotarjan 80 people were killed when police fired into a crowd of 10,000 workers who demanded the release of their workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle...
...great Csepel iron and steel works, strike leaders told the Russians they had mined all the factories and that if the Russians began shooting workers they would blow up the whole industrial area. At Miskolc (pop. 200,000), coal miners set up a volunteer organization to keep order, mined only enough coal to keep kindergartens and hospitals heated. At Gyor, when some workers said they would go back to work, the town's bakers told them there would be no bread...