Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish immigrant and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Tramiel has amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million. He did it mainly by nurturing a typewriter business he founded 26 years ago into giant Commodore International (1983 sales: $1 billion). He left the company abruptly and unexpectedly in January, apparently because he had trouble sharing power with other Commodore executives. In the following months, he took the time to tour Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and think about his future...
...another district of the Polish capital, a middle-aged woman was on her way to work when a plainclothes policeman stopped her on the street and asked why she was not walking in the direction of her voting station. Summoning up her courage, the woman told the policeman to stick to the business of keeping the peace, and kept on walking...
...Polish authorities announced that Lis was captured with several incriminating documents, including a letter from a Solidarity leader in Brussels indicating that the AFL-CIO, the giant U.S. labor organization, had contributed $200,000 to the under ground and suggesting that more money might be forthcoming if the election boy cott was successful. Lis was charged with failing to end his role in Solidarity when the trade union was suspended, founding an illegal organization, entering into agreements with foreign organizations and using false identity documents...
...pavement at Bermuda's Royal Navy base. In red, next to this makeshift memorial, he wrote "Marques." A single yellow rose was placed beside the young boy's name and a bouquet of red and white carnations by that of the ship. Only then did Polish Captain Jan Sauer talk about how he and his schooner Zawisza Czarny rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Marques, the stately square-rigger that sank near Bermuda last week killing 17 sailors and trainees, their captain, Stuart Finlay, 42, and his 18-month-old son Christopher...
...other interesting promotion was that of Polish dissident Stanislaw Barancak, who will fill Harvard's chair in Polish language and literature, the only one of its kind in the country. Barancak first came to Harvard in 1981 as an associate professor, after three years of negotiation between the University, the State Department, and Polish authorities, who were reluctant to have him leave because of his opposition activities...