Word: bohemia
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...Europe having such a hard time creating jobs? Ask Svatoslav Kodytek and Tomas Lenc, two florists from southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Soon after their country joined the European Union last May, they tried to open two shops across the Austrian border, in the quaint medieval townlet of Gmünd and in nearby Waidhofen. They planned to hire locals, but ran into roadblocks from the very start. First, Gmünd's labor office told them bluntly that no more flower shops were needed in the area. Undeterred, they set up their stores. Authorities then took two months...
...Located on Morocco's Atlantic coast, the port of Essaouira was for many years a well-kept secret of 20th century bohemia. Rock stars Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix have wandered its 300-year-old streets, joining a steady stream of beats and backpackers who, in some cases, were drawn as much by the local kef as by Essaouira's cultural mélange of European, Berber and African influences...
...going to close this company and tell my employees, 'Sorry, but I can do better elsewhere. Blame the government.' My employees and companies like this are the solution, not the problem. Our job is to prove that by succeeding - and live better, fuller lives for it." - By Bruce Crumley BOHEMIA: E.U. HEADACHES For many people, headcheese - a seasoned loaf customarily made of pig's- head meat molded in aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlav...
...forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most incidents like these do not make headlines. Although they would be denounced by the vast majority of Europeans, they are often not recognized by police - and their perpetrators aren't necessarily hard-core extremists. Different countries have different definitions...
...still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class until I was 37. I can't escape in that I'm working class, but I'm very lucky in that my work is in bohemia." Q&A: I can't believe how stupid the church has been, to give instant condemnation TIME: You were essentially a juvenile delinquent. Yet you ended up going to university. Mullan: I went pretty dark and was in a gang, but I only did that for a year. I realized that I just...