Word: polska
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Flowers wreathed the gates of the Gdansk shipyard, where the trade union movement that helped overthrow communism in Poland was born 25 years ago. In Solidarity Square, named after that movement, patriotism bloomed, too, as crowds chanted "Polska! Polska!" at a ceremony last month celebrating Solidarity's founding. For Lech Kaczynski, 56, mayor of Warsaw and leader of the Law and Justice Party, it was an emotional moment. Lech and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, helped establish Solidarity, and returned to Gdansk for the commemorations. "I was thinking of all those years of underground struggle," Lech told Time last week, sipping...
...popular books such as Dialogues of the Tongue and Palate, TV shows and newspaper columns, they aim to reclaim such age-old specialities as golonka (succulent pigs' knuckles stewed in beer) and pierogi (small pastry envelopes filled with meat, cabbage and mushrooms). For a taste of the traditional, try Polska Tradycja - tel: (48 22) 840 09 50 - in downtown Warsaw...
...company had grown too quickly in the 1990s, says Lundberg, with interests in everything from chicken farms to electronic-cable manufacturing. Then reports leaked that the management had granted an option to an outside company for a 5% stake in Elektrim's most valuable asset, the wireless firm Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, or PTC. Major Western shareholders swooped in. Lundberg sold off interests in nearly 80 companies, slashing staff levels from 30,000 to 15,000 by last December. They will be down...