Word: czechs
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Optimism, as dissident Czech writer Milan Kundera once opined, is an opiate. And its most practiced traffickers, of course, are politicians. But optimism is an indulgence military and intelligence professionals can scarcely allow themselves. And that makes the U.S. intelligence community's new report on our world 15 years from now, "Global Trends 2015," a cold-water corrective to some of the sunny nonsense about globalization that passes for conventional wisdom in Washington...
Secondly, Lemieux, except for the latter part of his career, was a one-man army. He never had any superstars on his team until the arrival of Jagr, and he did not play for many years alongside the Czech superstar...
Performance artist MILAN KOHOUT talks about his work with the Roma people (Gypsies) of the Czech Republic at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at Mobius, 354 Congress St., Boston. For more information, call...
...resulted from the inexperience of Czech bankers and a misguided semiprivatization in which a percentage of shares in leading banks was distributed to citizens through vouchers. That approach produced a deadly cocktail of limited accountability and poor lending practices. The recent spate of bank sell-offs promises to minimize new losses. "This is the end of crony capitalism," says Pavel Kavanek, CEO of the recently privatized Czechoslovak Commercial Bank (CSOB). "The name of the game now is impartial lending." A majority stake in CSOB was sold to Belgium's KBC Bank in mid-1999 for roughly $1 billion. Last February...
...investment bank, which resold its shares to a passive Dutch shareholder. At no point did the bank have a strategic investor to oversee its conduct. Depositors panicked last June and took out some $440 million in deposits in just three days. On June 16, two dozen members of the Czech antiterrorist police, wielding submachine guns, took over the bank's downtown headquarters at the government's behest and sent management packing...