5227 találat erre a kifejezésre: "by third the plum" a(z) ÖSSZES rovatban

2006. január. 11. 12:50 hvg.hu English version

Compaigning tricks

distance themselves from the scurrilous book The Victor. We can only hope that voters will not be deceived by
...The attempt to sell the publisher of Magyar Vizsla as a civil society organisation failed spectaularly, just as did
assess the parties' manifestos objectively in advance of the elections. But these manoeuvres by
... hypocrisy. Negative campaigning and black propaganda are integral to the politics of our time. We can't combat it with legal means
...The outsourcing of dirty tricks is becoming standard practice for our political parties. The PR experts within

2006. január. 07. 13:00 English version

Firing on the flagship

The storm over the Financial Times's Hungarian supplement continues. Fidesz published its advert about the
... for a special parliamentary committee to be established. The FT was supposedly to be excluded from the affair, but it
... have now written a strange letter to London. They continue to attack the Gyurcsány government. But what does the
Fidesz politicians alleged that not only was the six-page supplement paid for by the Hungarian government
... papers's editors and correspondents." Fidesz's argument was with the government and certain of its members. But it is hard to square
... stoked by an article headlined Postmodern Times in the conservative newspaper Magyar Nemzet on Wednesday

2006. január. 07. 10:12 MTI Itthon

Az Economist is a Fidesz által kritizált FT-mellékletről ír

a Financial Times decemberi cikkeire, amelyekben - a Fidesz állítása szerint - a kormány a valósnál rózsásabb képet festett Magyarország helyzetéről
egyet a kormányon". A The Economist szerint "a választások idején a Fidesz híveinek kedvelt időtöltésük a külföldi sajtó csépelése. A
..., hogy az egész egy félreértés, és dicsérte az országban dolgozó "nagyra becsült" külföldi tudósítókat. Ám a Financial Times még mindig várja a

2006. január. 05. 12:35 HVG English version

Attila Michnai

In order to have a genuinely fair tax system we need things to be clear and transparent, and we need precise figures. The current
... with anew every year, has none of these features. For the moment, we can only guess which members of society will bear what share of
last granny would need to have an electronic account which would keep track of the money flowing in and out of the state
... would be opened with a value of zero at 00:00 on the first day of the year when the new system was
..., every item of income and expenditure would be tracked. Assuming that there are 10m tax subjects, then let there be a VAT payment to

2006. január. 04. 12:05 HVG English version

A lost generation

restarting in 1989-90, the monasteries have still not managed to replace a generation lost when most orders were banned in
parents were not religious according to the teachings of the church. Amongst the new members, men were most
... living in a monastic community, women by the desire to make sacrifices and help others, according to one sociologist.
... spiritual life by living a life wholly devoted to God. The Clarists in Szécsény, for example, mainly pray, chant and

2006. január. 03. 13:40 MTI Világ

Szaddám Huszein a golyó általi halált választaná

bűnökért halálra ítélik az ellene folyó perben - jelentette kedden a The Washington Times című amerikai

2005. december. 29. 23:30 HVG English version

Growing distance from the euro?

Most of the new member states are within grasping distance of the euro. Smaller countries could adopt the
..., though the larger countries, including Hungary, may have trouble meeting even the 2010
joining. The opposition is explained by the fact that they only excaped the rubel zone at
... to speed up - with added impetus given by the desire to confront the populist opposition leader Robert Fico
... posing problems. The Hungarians' chances are affected by impending elections. Expecting budget discipline ahead of an

2005. december. 29. 23:25 HVG English version

Hungarian money makers

Amongst the world's financial centres, Hungarian is most often heard in the City of London, though Vienna (because of its
meetings of some 20 to 30 Hungarian businessmen, bankers and students in Manhattan, arranged by the Hungarian
...Many of these are not earlier emigrés or their offspring, but people who have arrived straight from Hungary. László Urbán, managing director of
.... "The reason there are so few Hungarians in the financial world is that between 1949 and 1986 there was no real banking

2005. december. 29. 23:15 HVG English version

Bankers roots

Hungarians pursuing stellar careers in the banking world abroad always talked of wanting to do something for the mother
Belgium since 1949. He headed up the Bank for International Settlements in Basel between 1985 and 1993, followed by three
...Thomas A Renyi headed up the Bank of New York for seven years betwen 1996 and 2003. So far, only one other Hungarian has reached similar
... the banking world: Péter Róna, who led the New York subsidiary of the British investment bank Schroders from

2005. december. 28. 10:19 HVG English version

Political vision

I found an anonymous study of the EU's long-term plans on the internet. The details are found
The Customs Ministry would promote development by introducing new tariffs (a bridge and tunnel tariff, an air tariff, a
... be determined fortnightly by the European Central Bank, where half the East European countries will have a
...As part of EU finance reform, the 1.045 per cent of the EU's GDP that is currently distributed should be increased to 5 per

2005. december. 22. 11:32 MTI Világ

Jackson nem fizet, haladékot kér

A The Los Angeles Times című lap értesülése szerint Jackson ügyvédei tárgyalásban állnak a Fortress Investment bankkal, hogy hathónapos
becslése szerint Jackson része a Sony/ATV Music Publishing cégben mintegy félmilliárd dollárt, vagyis több mint egybillió forintot ér. A

2005. december. 21. 18:54 HVG English version

Reconstructed baths of Budapest

Now that the Rudas baths have reopened, the people of Budapest can once again enjoy the pleasures of a proper
... attitudes towards cleansing the body and the soul were fundamentally different from Hungarian customs, the
was followed by a shave. Women would depilate everything their entire bodies, with the exception of the hair
... "It is forbidden to enter the bath without first greeting the other guests. Argument should be avoided, especially over
... bear nor use arms," ran the bath bye-laws in 18th century Hungary. This strict etiquette was widely understood in Hungary at a time

2005. december. 21. 18:42 HVG English version

Top list of Universities

Next week, HVG will devote a special supplement to a ranking of Hungary's colleges and universities. The challenge of the
... tradition of ranking colleges in Hungary, but its importance derives from the fact that Hungarian higher education is in
coming months, it is essential to know whether their time and money will be well spent at a given institution. The decision is made
... Preparing a league table is thankless task, since, with the exception of the leaders, everyone on the list is
... clear, how hard it is to find the common denominator linking statistics from diverse sources. For those who will be making university

2005. december. 21. 18:15 hvg.hu English version

Budapest Airport sold out!

airport operators have benefited from the appearance of budget airlines on the
which has led to huge growth in private investment in the field, spurred on by privatisations in bother western and
... airport operator by passenger traffic is the French company Aéroports de Paris (ADP). Last spring, the French
... tender, but the contract was annulled by a Bulgarian court, which said the Danish company had insufficient

2005. december. 21. 16:16 hvg.hu English version

Referendum anniversary

There was something in the air as the first anniversary of the referendum on dual citizenship approached. We
... from beyond the borders would arise to tear at their still-bleeding wounds (which did indeed happen), and here at home
This despite the fact that the government had pre-empted them all by moving a law in parliament on
... Hungarians abroad than the socialist-liberal wing. An election can be decided by just a few tens of thousands of voters
... of voters from neighbouring countries ran into the hundreds of thousands (easily arranged by having Fidesz supporters

2005. december. 19. 10:37 HVG English version

Is there a crisis?

Hungary is not yet in economic crisis, but it is in trouble, according to László Antal, one of Hungary's leading macroeconomists. The
... economist has no confidence in either the Finance Ministry's or the Hungarian National Bank's
currency devaluation, the value of savings, property and factories plummeted to a third of its original level. But
... have been accepted by the international capital markets 20 years ago, now they do accept it. But in the long
... still have the euro in 2012. If the EU is content to accept slightly massaged figures, by allowing

2005. december. 12. 10:29 hvg.hu English version

Longer novels, less time spent on reading?

"People who write great novels are the ones who can afford to," remarked the literary historian Mátyás Domokos
sales or by the number of pages is an extremely rough-and-ready approach. Critics agree that Géza Ottlik's School on
... a cult novel by 1980), is, with its 300 pages, just as much a great novel as Maxim Gorkij's several-thousand-page final work
... meet the burden of expectation placed on it. Will it be liked, not just by the critics, but by

2005. december. 12. 10:25 hvg.hu English version

NATO radar

The message is clear: the political decision was clear and timely, the fruit of dialogue and tolerance, it was
... environmentalists, a success for the civil sector, a success also for Hungarian constitutional democracy, and proof of our commitment
The Medgyessy and Gyurcsány governments worked tirelessly to exclude public opinion and environmental movements. They tried to create a
... accompli, to influence the media, to exploit economic arguments ("we'd have to pay for a change of plan"). They professed powerlessness
... made to NATO. The Horn and Orbán governments did much the same. And next year's government would do the same

2005. december. 12. 10:07 hvg.hu English version

Csaba László

The Visegrád four have no budget strategy, which is why they rejected Tony Blair's proposals, rather than giving them their serious
.... Hungary does not know what it wants to achieve with its National Development Plan, according to the CEU
hvg.hu: Why was agreement with the British prime minister so important? László: The Visegrád countries
... Slovakia - have a peculiar shared position. They have a common interest, for example in making sure regional development money goes to
... states and in preserving agricultural subsidies and the solidarity principle. We're seeing an emerging practice in the EU

2005. december. 11. 10:47 MTI Világ

Kihallgatták a brit trónörököst

Kihallgatták Károly brit trónörököst néhai felesége, Diana walesi hercegnő nyolc éve Párizsban bekövetkezett halálával kapcsolatban – írta a
az elvált Camilla Parker Bowlest; ez egyébként csak idén áprilisban történt meg. A The Sunday Times híre szerint a Diana-levél része
... a brit belső és külső elhárítás, az MI5 és az MI6 vonatkozó dokumentumaiba, sőt a két cég ügynökeit is meghallgatta. A The Sunday Times