Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace of wonder. "Nobody thought it would have the effect it had." Wojciech Gruszecki, 44, who has been advising Poland's private farmers, has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Says he: "At a certain age, every citizen should give something to his society and his nation." That age came early for Andrzej Kolodziej, who helped organize the walkout at the Gdynia shipyard. "They couldn't believe I was only 21 years old," he said last week. "I had to show them my identity card...
...answered prayer. For Sendak, visiting the land of the very young is not something that requires a visa. He is a permanent citizen...
...police call "combat stance": in a stiff crouch, one hand wrapped around the butt of his newly purchased revolver, the other around his wrist to steady it. As Lennon took six staggering steps, Chapman, 25, simply stood still, and then went with the arresting officers like a model citizen who had been unfairly rousted on a traffic bust. Chapman's personal history showed, in retrospect, many ominous byways (see following story), but immediately after the shooting, he offered no explanations. And no regrets...
...acted adroitly to increase that control. Besides appointing close associates to head the broadcast networks, he has helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes "Citizen Hersant" the most important press magnate in France. Commercial publish must still depend on the state-run advertising agency Havas to help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially pressed newspapers...
Incorporated in July 1979, Citizen's Energy Corporation (CEC) was launched out of Kennedy's basement. Armed with a list of oil ministers' addresses, a letter of credit from Chase Manhattan, very little capital and the Kennedy name, Kennedy and a few friends sent their proposal to the oil producing countries. Most of the ministries did not respond; a few were curious; and then Venezuela said yes. Less than a year later, 8.4 million gallons of CEC-imported heating oil entered Boston harbor...