Word: nad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
...union is fueled partly by ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such Slovak heavy industries as the aluminum plant in the town of Ziad Nad Hronom, an antiquated, pollution-belching monster. Whether an independent Slovakia can keep such industries going is questionable. Unemployment in Slovakia is already 12%, four times the Czech rate, and it has been held to that level only with the aid of heavy subsidies coming from Prague. But having threatened to secede...