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...cutting down the waste, I think we can modernize it and make it even more efficient as far as costs. And this is where I think we can move ahead. There are countries that have been able to maintain a social welfare system, and see that as part and parcel of being competitive. That is the Nordic countries, or the Scandinavian countries, where they have a very important welfare system, but they're at the top, most competitive countries in the world. I often like to say that the sense of welfare and security that a person needs, sometimes also...
...that I should buy the M-800," says Singh. "It was not only a status symbol, but a vehicle of the times." He drove the little car for nearly two decades, and says it witnessed a major portion of his life story. "My children and grandchildren have all been part of that experience. If my wife were alive today she would have never allowed me to sell it," he says. "To this date, I associate the car with her." (See the most important cars of all time...
...process of reconciliation. President Kaczynski was due to arrive on Saturday for another ceremony along with a delegation of more than 80 Polish officials and relatives of the victims of the Katyn massacres. "I hope I get a visa," Kaczynski had joked when announcing the visit. As part of the ceremony, he was due to receive an urn of soil from the forests were the thousands of Polish officers had been executed with a bullet to the base of the neck...
...military and the deputy minister of foreign affairs, as well as scores of other officials who were on that flight. How the tragedy will effect relations between Poland and Russia will depend a lot on how Russia handles the investigation of the crash alongside Polish authorities. For his part, Putin is traveling to Smolensk on Saturday to help oversee the inquiry and meet with Tusk, who has also said he is coming to the scene of the crash. But whatever the investigators find among the wreckage, Poles will now have yet another tragic reason to mourn their countrymen...
...solidarity in the face of the tragedy by holding a joint press conference at the place of the catastrophe. Nevertheless, Poland has announced it will carry out its own investigation into the causes of the crash. So far the most probable cause is the error of judgment on the part of the pilot, who attempted a second landing at the Smolensk airport despite being warned by traffic controllers to divert to Moscow or Minsk because of thick fog. When descending, the plane clipped the tree line and broke in two, resulting in the deadly crash that has sent Poland into...