Word: czechoslovakian
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...political awareness and social conscience as well. He's just someone who wants to get rich as quickly as possible, which in the course of I Served the King of England he briefly does. When we meet him, however, he is being discharged, penniless, from a Communist-era Czechoslovakian prison, having served a term of almost 15 years because more or less accidentally, and certainly without malice aforethought, he ended up - very profitably - on the Nazi side during the war. After jail, he's exiled to a remote corner of the country, where he has plenty of time to reflect...
...cannot boast such concrete understanding, but Harvard’s Social Studies program has gone a long way toward promoting international concerns. Those in the humanities, however, may despair—although they may know everything there is to know about postwar Georgia bluegrass music or food imagery in Czechoslovakian spy fiction, their knowledge of the delicate interplay between cultural forces independent of nations may remain blighted. It is time to rethink how the humanities approach learning, and to usher in a new ethic of “transnationalism.”Developments like the Internet already erode the traditional...
...trademark tug-of-war certainly intensified a decade ago when, in the aftermath of the fall of Czechoslovakian communism, Anheuser-Busch failed in its bid to buy Budvar. In more than 100 court cases and administrative proceedings worldwide, Budvar and Anheuser-Busch have tangled over which brewer gets to call its suds Budweiser. (Through the outcome of an agreement earlier in the century, Budvar beer sold in North America, for example, is called Czechvar. In much of Europe, the Anheuser-Busch brand is marketed...
...professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina—and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense as “Brazilian window” or “Czechoslovakian window” would in English. My Argentine classmates just want to know if we started saying “freedom window” after our spat with the French over the war in Iraq...
...financial consulting in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1992, Kozeny told The New York Times that he used the Harvard name for his company because he has a B.A. in economics from Harvard. The Harvard tag aided the company’s ability to channel millions of dollars into the Czechoslovakian economy as it was privatizing its financial market, according to the newspaper...