Word: balkanize
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...Shunning Balkan influence, generations of Rumanian writers, including Eugène lonesco, looked toward Paris for inspiration. Bucharest itself was planned in arrondissements like Paris, with wide, tree-lined boulevards, street cafes and a replica of the Arc de Triomphe. The Rumanian language is peppered with French words...
Last May a Harvard graduate student, Jane F. Balkan, was stabbed repeatedly less than two blocks from the site of Monday's slaying, Miss Balkan survived the attack...
Miss Young will spend her year in northern India, probably working with native children. Hamburg plans to use his grant to play and study the folk music of the Balkan countries. Reyes will live in an Indian village in the Peruvian highlands...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
Partly overregulated (railroads), partly underregulated (waterways), and partly free from all rate and route controls (contract truckers), transportation today is a Balkan thicket. Each uncoordinated segment has been encouraged to grab as much of the total market for itself as possible. The predictable result: too much capacity in some places (parallel rail lines), too little elsewhere (a shipping shortage for Viet Nam). On top of that, lawmakers, bureaucrats and private executives alike have virtually ignored the obvious matter of synchronizing transportation by auto, bus, rail or plane. Not a single railroad, for example, connects directly with a major airport...