Word: czechs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AUSTRIA No Meltdown - Yet Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's coalition government weathered its worst crisis since taking office when 15% of voters signed a petition calling for the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in neighboring Czech Republic. The petition, which was organized by Jörg Haider's Freedom Party, demanded that Prague close the plant or risk an Austrian veto on its application to join the E.U. Although the Freedom Party's pro-E.U. partners opposed the vote, they agreed to renew discussions with Prague on the safety of the Temelin plant across Austria's eastern...
...course, Slavic 131: "Imagining Prague: The City in Literature, Art, and Film," examines the imaginary representation of Prague by Czech, French, German, and Russian writers, artists, and filmmakers from the early nineteenth century to the present...
DIED. MILAN HLAVSA, 49, Czech rock star whose underground group, Plastic People of the Universe, rallied 1970s and '80s dissidents such as Vaclav Havel; of lung cancer; in Prague. Hlavsa named his band for Frank Zappa's song Plastic People. The 1976 arrests of band members inspired the formation of the human-rights group Charter 77 the following year...
Optimism, as dissident Czech writer Milan Kundera once opined, is an opiate. And its most practiced traffickers, of course, are politicians. But optimism is an indulgence military and intelligence professionals can scarcely allow themselves. And that makes the U.S. intelligence community's new report on our world 15 years from now, "Global Trends 2015," a cold-water corrective to some of the sunny nonsense about globalization that passes for conventional wisdom in Washington...
Secondly, Lemieux, except for the latter part of his career, was a one-man army. He never had any superstars on his team until the arrival of Jagr, and he did not play for many years alongside the Czech superstar...