Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warsaw-educated engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland include a fishing fleet and a home-building enterprise, as well as Hanna-Barbera's largest animation studio, where Polish artists draw the cels for Yogi Bear and Flintstones cartoons...
...Europeans work, play and shop. In Hungary, General Electric paid $150 million last January for control of Tungsram, one of the world's largest light-bulb makers. GE plans to light up Europe by selling the bulbs across the Continent. In Poland, Italian automaker Fiat, in partnership with a Polish company, plans to build 1.5 million subcompacts during the next ten years. In East Germany, Coca-Cola is pouring out $140 million to turn six aging state-owned soft-drink plants into gleaming Coke bottlers...
...Mikhail Gorbachev prepares to embark on his latest plan to save the Soviet economy, he has expressly ruled out the shock therapy administered by Polish leaders last January when they abolished subsidies and price controls. By far the boldest approach to economic reform anywhere in Eastern Europe, Poland's policies have created hard times for many of the country's 40 million citizens. Unemployment, virtually unknown under the Communists, has climbed to 400,000. Rising prices and tight curbs on wages have sliced the purchasing power of some families as much as 40%. For the first time people can remember...
...recent strikes by shipyard and railroad workers for higher pay and improved conditions suggest that patience may be wearing out. "People have been amazingly tolerant so far," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But they are feeling the pinch, and there are many dangers ahead...
...addition, she recalls, there was some hope that the Board would be able to lure Walesa to the Commencement ceremony. The leader of the Polish solidarity movement accepted an invitation to speak two years ago, but was unable to attend because of political unrest in Poland. Instead, his speech was read in absentia by Professor of Comparative Literature Carlos Fuentes...