Word: rome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Never before had Italy's bureaucracy seemed so diligent, so strangely un-Italian. Government offices were positively jammed with civil servants, so many, in fact, that there was not enough furniture-or enough work-to go around. One frustrated supervisor in the general post office in Rome finally informed his standing army of employees: "Tomorrow everyone will have a chair and a desk. For too many years, we've been working with too few people. Now everything has changed...
Enter an anonymous postal inspector who recently spot-checked the mail facilities at Rome's Fiumicino Airport, one of the more glacial arms of Italy's infamous postal service. The inspector found only four of the office's 49 workers on the job. As it happened, his report landed on the desk of Luciano Infelisi, a crusading magistrate, who was appalled by the absenteeism. Infelisi began to issue warrants, and he demanded that 20 ministries and state agencies hand over the names of employees with high absenteeism records. Before Italy's 3.8 million civil servants could...
...results. I went to I Rome, came back, and am glad to be here...
...least ten dead and hundreds injured. The archbishops were well aware of that unrelieved bleakness. Indeed, they spent much of their week in the Vatican briefing the Polish-born Pontiff on the dim prospects for his homeland's future. As Glemp described it during an emotional sermon at Rome's Church of St. Stanislao: "Our fatherland ... is sick. Poles are overcome by anger. We are enraged one against the other." The church's role, said Glemp, is to contain that anger and channel it into a search for national unity. "Poland must not become an arena...
...antiterrorist commandos on Jan. 28 have been a whirlwind of debriefings, press conferences and meetings with heads of state in both Italy and the U.S. Before flying to Washington for breakfast with Reagan, the general lunched with Italian President Sandro Pertini, then met with Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini at Rome's Chigi Palace. Throughout, Dozier handled himself like a practiced politician, showing no signs of the anxiety or depression that so often afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped a wing dangerously low during an aborted landing at Andrews...