Word: pis
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...years, believes the factory would still be open if Poland had been run by "honest" men back then - men, she suggests, more like Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the identical twins who now serve as Poland's President and Prime Minister, respectively, and whose Law and Justice Party (PIS) has governed Poland for the past two years. "I have only good things to say about them," she says...
...conspiracy, in a spy scandal that has sparked congressional hearings and a wave of high-profile resignations, including Dunn's. Nearly two years ago, the media started publishing things only an HP director could know. Dunn tapped private investigator Ronald DeLia to find the leaker. The operation--which included PIs posing as journalists and HP directors in order to access their phone records--fell on the wrong side of the law, according to California's attorney general. TIME reviews some of the intrigue's major players...
...demonstrations in the mid-1990s and has blasted free-market reforms and E.U. membership for Poland. Only this month he was criticized for declaring that he had wanted to slap a television journalist during an interview. Even so, an official from the ruling center-right Law and Justice party (pis) said it had "no alternative" but to invite Lepper into government because it could not find another partner to form a majority. The country's new leadership, as a result, could be as welcome in the rest of Europe as the proverbial Polish plumber. "Poland's image has been damaged...