Word: polishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
POLAND--President Bush, in a day of high symbolism and support for Poland's strides toward democracy, yesterday offered a modest economic aid package intended to help "redeem the promise of a free Polish republic...
...element of the package is the $100 million U.S. fund--provided Congress approves, to support the Polish private sector as the Soviet bloc country moves away from its Marxist economy...
Even so, a clearly exhilarated Bush assured the Polish parliament, where Solidarity holds 260 of the 560 seats, that "the Western democracies will stand with the Polish people, and other peoples of this region...
...there were any doubts about the overwhelming rejection of the Communist party by Polish voters earlier this month, they were firmly dispelled last week. By the end of the second round of sparsely attended balloting, the Solidarity trade-union movement had confirmed its victory by winning 99 seats in the 100-member Senate and all 161 opposition seats in the 460-seat Sejm, the lower house, where 299 places had been set aside in advance for the Communist alliance...
...producing unique furniture for loyal clients. In the process, he has also built a distinguished reputation. Fellow furniture maker Sam Maloof calls him the "elder statesman" of the postwar American crafts movement; Anne d'Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, proclaims him "a national treasure." To further polish his renown, a warm and witty retrospective show of his work is now on view at the American Crafts Museum in New York City. "Full Circle" presents 43 of Nakashima's best pieces, from a battered 1944 teak coffee table to a masterly 1983 music stand whose...