Word: polisher
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...self-proclaimed Worker's Paradise, seeing the birth of an independent labor movement? Not if Beijing has any control over the situation. The Communist Party traces the fall of the Soviet Union to Poland's legalization of the Solidarity labor union, and leaders still deride worker movements as "the Polish disease." It was the sudden emergence of China's first independent union in May 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising, that prompted the leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that...
That spit-and-polish soldier in uniform behind the desk at the Army recruiting office may soon be a thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will...
MALEVOLENT: (while forcing indentured servants to spit polish his Gucci loafers...
...opening speech, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing greeted Convention delegates in all 11 official languages of the European Union - and in Polish. It was a nice gesture, even though Poles said he mangled the words. But it was hardly enough. Almost half of the national delegates are from the 13 candidate countries. The real prospect that as many as 10 of them will join the European Union in 2004 was what spurred the organization to take on the task of reforming its institutions lest they freeze up when the newcomers arrive. Yet many of the candidates feel they have...
...star of a Mozart opera, though, is always its score, and the orchestra, directed by Schuler, performs the original score with polish. The solid orchestration grounds the adapted opera with a familiar sound that provides the necessary foundation for liberties with the libretto...