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...Eastern Europe the situation is a little better. The initial wave of inflation that accompanied free-market reforms is subsiding: this year's Polish rate, for example, is expected to be 40%, down from 70% in 1991. Although official figures still show sagging production and rising unemployment, some experts suspect the statistics have not caught up with a booming private market. "Shopping in Poland these days is far easier than shopping in Austria," says John Reed, a Vienna-based expert on the Polish economy. "It's the wild, wild East, with shops open at all hours and a range...
...earlier ballads (When She's Gone, Middle Ground) often have the single-white- female blues, and there's a fine one here: He Thinks He'll Keep Her, a sarcastic soft rocker about a perfect wife ("Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design/ Spit and polish 'til it shines") who walks out on her husband only to find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only a victim. So she has peppered her new album with anthems to emotional resilience...
...bound to please the companies that clothe, feed and otherwise remunerate the athletes. The goals of the sponsors (among them the company that publishes this magazine) are straightforward. They hope that you and those with access to your credit cards will watch an event, feel good about the fingernail polish displayed by the winner, then dash out to the Official Convenience Store of the Games and buy a case...
Bellows' most powerful image of the city as compressor of violence was the boxing ring. Prizefighting was made illegal in New York State in 1900. But that did not dispose of the semi-clandestine "club nights," with battling pugs drawn from the hard, desperate edge of Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish street gangs -- kids who would pound each other to hash for a purse under the eyes of a flushed, yelling house. The sport was barely a notch up from the bareknuckle slugging of Georgian England...
Loveman, who advises the Polish government on privatizing state industries, also said the participants "are expected to be centers of gravity for competence," serving as resources for management and technical assistance in their home countries...