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    POLAND GDANSK SHIPYARD SEIZED BY WORKERS
    September 14, 1980 - Poland

    Workers led by Lech Walesa in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland seize control and demand pay raises and the right to form a union free from communist control. In September the Solidarity (Solidarnosc) Union was formed, the workers' first independent trade union, led by shipyard electrician Lech Walesa. This was the start of the movement that allowed Poland to end Communist Rule in the country.

    A & P FOOD CHAIN
    September 14, 1949 - U.S.A.

    The Attorney General has filed suit to break up the A & P nationwide food chain. This is a follow up to an anti-trust case earlier this year that the powerful chain must separate their manufacturing and processing from its buying and selling business. The company would need to broken up into 7 separate independent companies with no company owning more than 800 stores in contrast to the 6000 retail outlets it currently owns.

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Learn more about online computer games. The article describes the advantages of playing flash games, such as good relaxation, brain training and memory development.

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Can you imagine your life with no personal computer. Most people will definitely answer no to this question. We work on PC when we are at the office. As soon as we come home the first thing we do is turning on our computer. We only turn it off for nights, but in the recent time with the development of technical progress there appeared a chance to download significant volumes of information, for example videos or music, from the Internet.

Downloading takes some time, so people prefer to keep their PC turned on during night and to download. Useful software, the World Wide Web, computer flash games ? we're so used to their presence in our living that it is scarcely conceivable that they can unexpectedly disappear.
Attitude of people to computer games is different. For some of them playing computer flash games is the most favorite hobby and the best way to relax after a hard working day. Some people find them amusing and sometimes spare some time to this kind of activity.

But there is also a category of people that consider computer games to be a total waste of time. They suppose that playing computer flash games destroys people's brain. Actually, flash computer games are really a great source of relaxation. What's more, it was confirmed by scientists that playing flash games affects positively the activity of our brain. Just imagine the situation when you're concentrated on playing a computer flash game. You're attentive to details and always try to think ahead.

That implies that playing flash games develop your thinking abilities and quick reaction ability. But still, computer games should not become the only thing you take interest in. Firstly, spending too much time in front of the monitor has a negative influence on your eyesight. Moreover, take into account that the game is a virtual reality and you should not change your real life with playing flash games. Use playing computer flash games as a way to relax and to exercise your brain and you'll get only positive effect.

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