Word: czechs
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Born in what is now the eastern Czech Republic in 1938, Josef Koudelka is one of the foremost photographers of his generation. He originally made a living as an aeronautical engineer, but began to gain recognition as a photographer through his pictures of drama productions. His debut exhibition was unveiled at Prague's Semafor Theatre in 1961, and soon afterward he began contributing to a theater magazine, Divadlo. While this connection to the stage seems arbitrary, it helped define two of his key qualities as a photographer: a knack for instinctively recognizing dramatic intensity in his subjects' lives...
...Putin's threat is a pointed response to the U.S. decision to install missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The American justification is that NATO needs to extend its defenses against a potential attack from Iran, but few Russians accept that argument. Poland and the Czech Republic are a vast distance from Iran, so Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit...
...forces in Europe show, he is politically clever. The threat is a veiled one. Putin says he first wants to put his argument to the NATO-Russia Council; he intends to appear as a reasonable negotiator. Whether he really thinks the Americans will back down in Poland and the Czech Republic is not clear. But he appeals strongly to Russians. And he can make a lot more trouble in Europe, East and West, before the end of his presidency...
...growing number of non-German engineers is a result of economics and education. Countries like India, China and the Czech Republic are producing highly qualified engineers who are less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms...
...spat spiked Wednesday when Secretary of State Condi Rice verbally slapped a top Russian general for saying that Moscow might have to aim some of its missiles at former fellow Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic and Poland if they host U.S. missile-defense bases. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, head of Russia's strategic missile forces, had said Monday such targeting would be an option if those two nations agree to a U.S. proposal to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic. "I think that was an extremely unfortunate comment," Rice said during a stop...