Word: bratislava
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...went to school for five years in Bratislava, two years to the elementary school, and then for three years to the "Real-Schule." During that period, I did not earn a single A--except in singing and in German. Of course I had an alibi. These were all Slovak schools, and I started to learn this language only at 10. Unfortunately, it is hard to invoke this excuse for mathematics, and I certainly did not distinguish myself in this subject, either...My grades were C's and an occasional...
...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...
...agreement came in a fourth marathon negotiating session between the two in the Slovak capital Bratislava. For Klaus the split means being Prime Minister of a Czech republic committed to the deep economic reforms he has advocated as federal Finance Minister since 1989, rather than Prime Minister of a rancorous Czechoslovakia...
Felzenberg, senior program officer of the Democracy Corps, also participated in the trip to Bratislava, Prague and Budapest, along with Princeton University economist Richard Quandt...
...early days of the cold war, central Slovakia became the heartland of the heavy-arms industry. The sleepy little town of Martin, 145 miles north of Bratislava, was the site of a tank factory that employed 11,000; nearby Dubnica churned out armored personnel carriers; down the road, Povazska Bystrica produced jet engines...