Word: czechs
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...profit margins in the U.S., where it gets more than 80% of its sales. At one time, the company had ruled out European acquisitions, but rivals think they'll get involved and the company is no longer adamantly denying it. A-B has been fighting with the Czech Republic's Budvar brewery over the name Budweiser for years; in recent weeks, courts in Japan, Lithuania, Spain and Taiwan have all found against A-B. Analysts say a German acquisition wouldn't come as a surprise. And Denmark's Carlsberg has been nibbling around the German market for more than...
...most comprehensive inquiry to date into the attacks makes no link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, except for a passing reference in the testimony of CIA director George Tenet to the possibility that hijacker Mohammed Atta may or may not have met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence agent. Czech authorities had originally alerted the U.S. to such a possibility, but later withdrew the claim, which was always doubted by FBI officials who had information placing Atta in the U.S. on each of the days either side of the purported Prague encounter. Claims of an Atta meeting with an Iraqi...
Your story on the new production of Brundibar, a long-forgotten children's opera rediscovered by artist Maurice Sendak [OPERA, June 2], managed to exclude any mention of the work's composer Hans Krasa, a Czech who died in Auschwitz in 1944. Can anyone imagine an article about the revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night without a reference to Eugene O'Neill? MICHAEL BORISKIN ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COPLAND HOUSE Cortlandt Manor...
...DAVID JOSEK/AP Czech President Klaus with the Castle Guard...
...troops at Prague Castle. "The green uniforms and plastic ties on a rubber band didn't give the country a good image," says Ladislav Spacek, Havel's former spokesman. Today, the soldiers wear fetching grey-and-blue uniforms, complete with tassels and shoulder braids in the colors of the Czech flag, and their changing-of-the-guard ceremonies attract scores of tourists. But last week the unit was once again a source of national embarrassment, following revelations that nine soldiers stripped for a porn website and two others face criminal charges for posing as police and shaking down prostitutes. President...