Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...major firms to donate the services of their top auditors and executives for more than four months to analyze the city's books and management problems. By April, Cleveland had balanced its budget. Voinovich persuaded local banks to refinance $10.5 million in defaulted notes last month, and in effect to loan the city another $25.7 million - both at a fire-sale interest rate of 8⅞. The crisis has not entirely passed...
...diameter red lenses, now being made in test-market quantities, will cost about 20? a pair and last the laying life of the bird, about a year. Wise says the tranquilizing effect works not only for hens, but for turkeys, pheasants and even pigs. Not, however, for quail. Far from being calmed, they go berserk...
...presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the 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...
...severe test next week, when the Polish Supreme Court is expected to decide whether private farmers can form an independent union. So far the authorities have resisted, arguing that the farmers are self-employed and thus cannot bargain as employees. The farmers contend that they are in effect state employees, since the government sets their prices. At a meeting last week, they warned of a possible strike if their union is not recognized. It was not a threat the authorities could take lightly, since private farmers own 75% of Poland's agricultural land and produce 80% of domestically grown...
...unemployed electrician. Today, as leader of the Communist world's only independent labor union, he is one of the most powerful men in Poland, a folk hero not only to millions of his countrymen but to much of the world. His achievement all but defies description; in effect, he single-handed rallied his fellow workers to stand up against the will and the might of the Soviet Union. Walesa looks ill-suited for such eminence...