Word: polisher
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...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee to Assist Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (whose welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's Money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency foundered. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said: "There would have been no success or victory without...
...compared it to playing in the Super Bowl--"the last two minutes for two years." He lobbied Welch for the chance to run his own unit, then took GE's weakest business--making electricity-generation equipment--and quadrupled its sales. But Jeff Immelt, who was known for his polish and intellect and ran GE's cutting-edge medical-systems business, won the top job. The other contender, Jim McNerney at GE Aircraft Engines, entertained an offer from 3M before the race was even over. That's not Nardelli's style. "I was not going to be outside interviewing," he says...
Athletes wearing Play Dry from Reebok cite a similar effect; the material also draws sweat to its fibers. U.S. tennis star Andy Roddick, Swedish heptathlete Carolina Kluft--the gold-medal favorite--and the Polish weight-lifting team will be among those sporting Play Dry in Greece. The technology helped Reebok sell some $263 million in apparel worldwide last year...
...Stefio's good English making him "the Leader." Agliana said he fell into the part of "the Strong One." "It's in the family DNA," he says. "I didn't ever let [the captors] see any fear. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction." The three Italians and a Polish hostage were rescued Tuesday by U.S. troops, but Agliana was ordered by Rome magistrates not to discuss his capture or liberation. The rescue raid appears to have been remarkably clean, though details are sketchy. No shots were fired, and Agliana said there were just two guards when U.S. troops arrived...
...overwhelming force. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his fellow officers had 500,000 men stretched across 800 miles; many were middle-aged or conscripts from Eastern Europe. They would ultimately face 1 million men by July--not just Yanks and Brits but Canadian, French, Polish and Dutch troops swarming across the Channel from southern England, which had turned into a vast base163 new airfields, 2 million tons of supplies, 1,500 tanks, 5,000 boats. The Luftwaffe's 183 fighter planes that day faced 11,000 Allied aircraft...