Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sloppy penalties. At 5:20 of the first, Doug Sproule was called for holding Vermont defenseman Pavel Navrat as the burly Czech was pressing goal-ward to Tracy's left. One should a) not get beaten by a one-goal-two-assists "marksman" on the year and b) not haul him down when there's one of your teammates between him and the goal...
...past few years have seen a surge of interest in Judaism among non-Jews as well, especially in the countries with the smallest surviving Jewish communities: Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. ``In this country if you're Jewish, everybody loves you,'' says Sylvie Wittmann, a tour guide who takes groups through Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. ``They think you're Franz Kafka...
...time it was Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin who dropped the big-grin, buddy-buddy act of their previous six face-to-face meetings and traded barbs. Clinton chided Russia indirectly for opposing NATO's plans to define the criteria for admitting Moscow's former satellites Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 1995. NATO is the "bedrock" of European security, said Clinton, and expanding it will make "new members, old members and nonmembers" safer. And if Russia thinks otherwise? Well, tough. "No country outside will be allowed to veto expansion...
...much he wants to see it grow bigger. He is uncomfortable with Germany's exposed position on the frontier between the solidity of NATO and the uncertainty of what used to be the Warsaw Pact. He would like to move NATO's border east, embracing Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, even in the face of vehement opposition from Russia. On that score he may face Washington's displeasure too, even if Bill Clinton did say when he visited Germany last July, "I always agree with Helmut...
...Stone's movie JFK for the facts of the Kennedy assassination. O'Rourke is after larger truths. But even the internal consistency of All the Trouble in the World is skewed. For example, to score points off former communists, O'Rourke catalogs the vast costs of pollution in the Czech Republic, but elsewhere he calls an unpolluted environment a "luxury good" and derides clean-up programs in the U.S. In one part of the book pollution helps trees; in another it kills them...