Word: czeched
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...that the subject of this somber book is the postmodern 'condition' would imply that the condition is now universal, perhaps even ingrained in human nature and society. This is empirically a falsehood, since, for the most part, Zulus and Czech window-washers do not fret over, let alone care, about postmodernism...
Wednesday: In an interview with a Czech newspaper, Zhirinovsky warned that Czechs "will be forced to ... clean the shoes of German officers" ... Thursday: Visiting St. Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...
Sachs: In countries that have undertaken real reforms, they are working. If you look at countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia or Latvia, inflation has been nearly eliminated and growth has been restored. Whether it is a left-of-center government, as in Poland, or right-of-center government, as in the Czech Republic, they are all following the same policy of privatization, open trade and integration with Europe. The policies work. There are lots of experiments going on. The successful countries uniformly are the ones undertaking strong reforms. The countries that are falling far behind or into chaos...
...conference call Tuesday night between Clinton's entourage in Prague and people at the White House ended with no final decision. But before leaving the Czech capital Wednesday morning, Clinton told advisers, "I want to get on with the business of my presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel. Officially, the decision came in a letter from White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum to Attorney General Janet Reno...
...keep 100,000 troops there. Brussels was the site of a two-day nato summit, and the alliance agreed to Clinton's Partnership for Peace plan. The initiative provides for the possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, the President of Ukraine, dealing with Ukraine's nuclear weapons...