[ noun ] an industrial city in Moravia in Czech Republic to the southeast of Prague <noun.location>
The ABB-PBS boiler works in Brno, taken over last year by the Swedish-Swiss group, Asea Brown Boveri, pays wages 10 per cent above local engineering rates to attract talent.
He has been examining ways the two companies can co-operate, as well as studying TDSi's products and management. Richard Benda, from Brno, Czechoslovakia, is 27 and a manager with a trade fairs and exhibitions company.
It is Monday night in the Moravian city of Brno, where the composer Leos Janacek lived, worked and died.
Some two-thirds of Brno's workforce is employed in the engineering, optics and glass industries. The skills base has attracted significant foreign investment, which is helping old capital-starved industries to restructure and modernise.
'We know in advance that Janacek will be empty and Verdi will be full,' observes Tibor Varga, Brno's opera director.
Miss Volkert, who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, has sung Brunnhilde in seven European opera houses.
CTK quoted the prosecutor's office in Brno, Moravia, as saying Stanislav Devaty was released because "the reasons for his detention have ceased to exist.
She said 18 other people were detained in the city of Brno, but she gave no details.