Word: polisher
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...Today Elektrim boasts more than 2.5 million subscribers through its voice, video, mobile and fixed-line telephone networks. Early last year Elektrim clashed with the German giant Deutsche Telekom over a controlling interest in wireless company PTC. Lundberg has apparently prevailed, but a lawsuit launched by Deutsche Telekom in Polish courts blocked further investments and forced her to take out a loan that increased PTC's debt load 55%. It took a last-minute $1.2 billion sale to Vivendi of a 49% share in a subsidiary that controls PTC to stave off disaster. "It wasn't an experience that...
Lundberg is a rarity: an American in Poland with no Polish roots. A graduate of Wharton and a native of Lexington, Mass., she moved to the country in 1991, not for any sentimental reasons but to become the local head of the Polish-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S. government-backed effort to spawn new businesses in the post-communist nation. "I didn't necessarily make a decision to leave the U.S.," she says, but "I felt that the potential was here [in Poland]." "She's very post-1989," says Ambassador Fried. "There's no sentiment or ethnic ties...
...other. She was immaculately dressed and polite, in contrast to most of the people she had dealt with that day. When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld, a former jewelry-store owner, has no legal experience, she says she considered hers "a very clear case. I thought, 'I don't need a lawyer...
...Rain check, typically 5. Tony Blair's brand-new son 8. Polish partner 12. eBay halted bidding on a charred rifle from here 13. Stevedores' org. 14. Take on board 15. It boosted the space station to a higher orbit 17. Gray area?: Abbr. 18. "Peachy-keen!" 19. The House voted to repeal a __ tax enacted to finance Spanish-American War 20. Get to work on TIME? 23. Key at the upper-left corner 24. __ Hamoukar, site of a recently discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles...
...Beauty Bazaar at eve.com and you'll find more than 11,000 ways to look and feel divine. From cantaloupe-infused bath gel to honey-colored body glitter to chocolate-brownie-scented nail polish, there's enough to sate even a modern-day Cleopatra--or a Marilyn Manson, for that matter. But try stocking up on your favorite moisturizer by Clinique or black eyeliner from Estee Lauder and you're out of luck...