Word: olszewski
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...Lori Olszewski from the San Francisco Chronicle is interested in African, Mexican and Asian history and culture, as well as child development...
...from the south side of Chicago; let's just say it's been a long road from there to Harvard," Olszewski quipped...
...almost six weeks after the parliamentary elections in October, President Lech Walesa looked for another way out. Then last week he grudgingly acquiesced to the will of the dominant center-right coalition in the lower house and named Jan Olszewski, 61, a lawyer with a long history of defending dissidents to Communist rule, to the post of Prime Minister...
Walesa moved reluctantly because Olszewski favors softening the radical anti-inflation policies that have been hailed abroad for pushing Poland into a market economy but are despised at home for causing 10% unemployment and threatening the survival of hundreds of state-owned businesses. Figuring that Poland had to bear economic pain in any case, Walesa has generally supported moving to a free market as quickly as possible. The choice may have been an effort to garner the center-right's support for laws to strengthen presidential powers, including more say in naming the Cabinet...
Wende's colleague, Lawyer Jan Olszewski, was equally dismayed at the prosecution's failure to find the real instigator of the crime. In a veiled reference to the Soviet Union, Olszewski declared, "This corpse, this blood, was supposed to release a spiral of mutual terror. Who could have had an interest in it? Every child who studies history knows in whose interest Poland's weakness...