Word: slovakian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would be contradictory to commit, with this film, sins for which Christ died." Frantisek Tondra, Slovakian Bishop, rebuking religious leaders and activists for screening pirated copies of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
...growth-enhancing initiatives. He and his scientists persuaded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reverse its previous rejection of Zelnorm, a potential blockbuster remedy for sufferers of irritable-bowel syndrome--a condition for which there are few other treatments. Vasella also paid $876 million to acquire Slovakian pharmaceutical company Lek, the maker of such generic drugs as Amoksiklav, a substitute for GlaxoSmithKline's Augmentin antibiotic. The acquisition puts Novartis in position to challenge Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals as the world's leading producer of generic drugs...
...consistently disappointing play, it has become increasingly hard for male fans to claim they admire her strictly for her tennis. Her loss in the opening round of Wimbledon last week didn't help matters. But a new distraction is getting the attention on Centre Court: Daniela Hantuchova, the blond Slovakian who made it to the round of 16 and seems to be supplanting Kournikova in the hearts, minds and lustful dreams of tennis fans. Proving more impressive to commentators than her baseline game are Hantuchova's 44-in. legs, which, as the foaming British tabloids have repeatedly noted...
...creation of a painting, not as an art object itself. Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg's "Life with Pop," in which the two artists sat in a Dsseldorf department store posing as "living sculpture," was meant to be experienced in person, not via photograph. And Tamas Szentjoby's "Czecho-Slovakian Radio Brick"-a brick which was used as an ironic substitute for hand-held radios after the latter were confiscated by Soviet authorities-was meant as a social protest, not a museum piece...