Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved futile, and the machine was abandoned seven weeks ago. The original Macintosh, introduced with great fanfare last year, may have been too dependent on a single software supplier to make major inroads into offices. The impact of the cumulative errors has been to take much of the polish off Apple's once bright image. Says Don Sinsabaugh, a partner in Swergold Chefitz & Sinsabaugh, an investment firm: "The company suffers a crisis of confidence among managers, dealers and Wall Street...
Almost 100 such icons have run in TIME since the magazine introduced them more than seven years ago. They have ranged from a jackboot stamping on a Polish flag, representing the crushing of Solidarity in 1981, to a basketball hovering over a hockey puck for a cover story last March on Larry Bird and Wayne Gretzky. Stories about the 1984 presidential campaign had their own symbol, the figure 84 with a donkey in one loop of the 8 and an elephant in the other...
...gravel-voiced Jones has none of the polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri...
...been common knowledge to many Poles for months. Then last week, the Polish Communist Party made it official: General Miroslaw Milewski, 57, the man who was in charge of the security police at the time of the slaying of Father Jerzy Popieluszko last fall, had been forced to resign from both the ruling Politburo and the Central Committee. Milewski is the highest-ranking official to fall from power as a result of the pro-Solidarity priest's murder. Earlier this year, three secret-police officers were found guilty of the killing, and a fourth was convicted of instigating...
...special flights date back to 1957, when U.S.-Polish relations were more amicable. But, said the Polish government announcement last week, "continuation of this particular privilege would be difficult in view of the discriminatory treatment our country receives daily from the U.S. & Administration." The U.S. is powerless to reciprocate beause Polish diplomats in Washington only have to go to their local A&P to do their food shopping. Said U.S. Embassy Spokesman Paul Smith: "We will manage to get by." The inconvenience will not last long: the embassy is arranging to have rations trucked in from West Germany...