Word: polese
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How many Bulgarians do you expect to leave for the West this year? I don't expect a mass dramatic exodus. The U.K. and Ireland are restricting access to workers from Bulgaria and Romania, the other country just admitted to the E.U. They did not restrict access to Poles.
Many Poles - up to two million - are known to have collaborated in some way with the secret police of the communist regime that ruled the country from 1945 to 1989. Often, those efforts did not amount to active spying. Communist agents would identify potential collaborators, including those who wanted to...
Going head to head with the telcos is EarthLink, a big player in dial-up but a company that was falling behind in broadband because of the high prices cable companies charged for access to the network. EarthLink (projected 2006 revenues: $1.3 billion) is banking on muni wi-fi to...
Even more promising - if far more speculative - is the mission profile for the crews. All of the Apollos landed near the lunar equator, a comparatively easy target for first-time visitors who don't plan to stay too long. A moon base would have to be built in the harder...
President George W. Bush and his key allies - Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, Canadian leader Stephen Harper and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - wanted a greater sharing of the burden, and to give ground commanders full authority to deploy troops as they see fit, rather than be...