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A journey across strange rooms and streets that vanish
In the presence of Constantin Abaluta, you instinctively feel the need to pay excessive attention to the way you look or to pick up invisible lint on your sleeves. However, the author of "CO...
All that may happen to a man may also happen to the word
All that may happen to a man may also happen to the word
All that may happen to a man may also happen to the word
Stavros Deligiorgis is an expert in speech, for whom meanings like angelic or demonic lead to the same point. I met him in Neptun, at this year's Colloquium of translators. His fascinating p...
"Exports at any rate," a slogan that works wonders
Exports' volume in June reached the highest level in the past ten years, while over the first six months of the year they increased by 25% as compared to last year. However, the exports' str...
Nicolae ?one and a book that changed his life
During his teenage years, Nicolae ?one, the manager of the Vinea Publishing House, was very keen on mathematics, practiced sports at the juniors' club in Giurgiu and competed with similar fa...
What is man that thou art mindful of him?
Men and women have communication problems. Big communication problems. Contrary to what many women believe, it's fairly easy to develop a long-term, stable, intimate relationship with a guy....
Macroeconomic connections that find no political adjustment
We want to work, not beg! Here is a slogan that accompanied many social manifestations in our years of transition. Those are two different ways to make a living. This is why purchase power,...
The magic word that steals reason and money
Most of the time, cons are done out of the law and using institutions established for a purpose other than the stated one. However, the credit cooperatives-popular banks, most of which have...
A privatisation that has gone wrong
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 13) Over the last twenty years, Great Britain has made up for the economic ground it had lost to its European rivals, Germany and France. Th...