Word: branko
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Maislinger is visiting the United States this week to accept the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Branko Lustig, the Academy Award winning producer of “Schindler’s List...
...still has more long rallies than most of his peers, Clayton seems able—and eager—to end them emphatically when the first opportunity presents itself, often with a hard-spinning groundstroke to a corner. In his win on Saturday against Purdue’s Branko Kuzmanovic, who had given him fits last year, Clayton had Kuzmanovic bouncing back and forth across the baseline and skidding exasperatedly after successively wider and harder shots. “It’s tough when you look across the net, and Chris is always, always, always running...
...1980s and 1990s, both decades of especially unfettered capitalism, were the second-slowest and slowest periods of real global growth since World War II, respectively (3.3 percent in the 1980s and 2.3 percent in the 1990s versus 4.9 percent from 1950-1973). In the same vein, the economist Branko Milanovic has argued that “the record of the last two decades (1978-1998) is shown to be almost uniformly worse than that of the previous two (1960-1978),” when state management of the economy was widely accepted as common sense...
...poll, a stern-looking Karamanlis warned he would block Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union unless a decade-long dispute over the name of the neighbouring state was resolved. The threat sparked a diplomatic tiff between Athens and Skopje since the debate, with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovksi saying he would withdraw from the U.N.-brokered name talks if Greece vetoed his country's designs to join NATO. Greece argues that Macedonia's name implies territorial claims against its region of the same name...
...that required the skills of football, baseball and tennis combined. Clayton’s match had proceeded at a snail’s pace with stupendously long points that had the audience strung out and quivering with excitement and the players—especially Clayton’s opponent, Branko Kusmanovic—wheezing and gasping for breath.Clayton had won the first set, 7-6, in as much time as it had taken most of the other matches to wrap up.The points were electrifying and dazzlingly athletic, with one particularly long rally featuring Clayton leaning far enough to his right...