Word: czechs
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...Compared to Russia and Bulgaria, Gaucho says the Czech Republic is a breeze. His troubles have shrunk to figuring out where to go fishing, his favorite pastime. In Prague, he is tilting at bureaucratic windmills in order to angle a fishing permit. He used to fish in the Czech town of Olomouc, where he played with another team. But in all the time he spent at the local river there, he managed to catch only "one trout and a karpyonka [Russian for carp]." He is mystified about the kind of bait Eastern European fish prefer. "I don't know what...
...Trumpf, certainly hopes so. Trumpf's continued strong sales growth is in large part the fruits of a geographical diversification: it established a subsidiary in the U.S. as long ago as 1969 and opened an office in Japan eight years later. It's currently investing in facilities in the Czech Republic, Mexico and South Korea. "Our main competition used to be in the U.S., but it has disappeared there, and now it's Japan," Leibinger-Kammüller says...
Cech (pronounced CHECK) was born in 1947 in Chicago to a Czech-American family. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, and attended Grinnell College nearby...
...weaker dollar. Trumpf's strong sales growth is in large part the fruit of geographical diversification by the company: it established a subsidiary in the U.S. way back in 1969 and opened an office in Japan eight years later. It's currently investing in facilities in the Czech Republic, Mexico and South Korea. "Our main competition used to be in the U.S., but it has disappeared there and now it's Japan," Leibinger-Kamm?ller says. Still, Trumpf uses its U.S. manufacturing operations as a springboard not just to the American market but also to Asia, where it exports part...
...Five paperback volumes of his musings have become bestsellers, and a sixth hits bookstores next month. An Ostrava-based theater is preparing to dramatize his blunders, and prominent Czech actors twist their tongues in Tuesday night televised readings from Ostravak's blog. And as his popularity surges across the country, Ostravak has rescued his hometown's profile from ridicule. "People are no longer ashamed of being from Ostrava," says Marcela Stehlikova, the editor who, according to the official story, discovered him for her publishing house...