Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kids on the Block. "We're a less bizarre, more palatable brand of music," Wodlinger says. "There is a good, positive response from parents." Her biggest market may lie overseas, where Hit Video USA has signed licensing deals with stations or cable systems in 20 countries, including Japan, Israel, Bulgaria and Burkina Faso...
...once revered as a staunch fighter of fascism and the founder of communist Bulgaria, but past glories could not save Georgi Dimitrov from the ash heap of history. Last week Dimitrov's embalmed body was quietly removed from the mausoleum in Sofia's main square, where it had been on public display since his death in 1949, and cremated in a ceremony attended only by a few relatives...
...BULGARIA...
...capitalism brings new wealth and competitive pressure to Eastern Europe, many people may decide to head for the beach. To accommodate them, Paris-based Club Med plans to open a resort next year on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria (pop. 9 million). The facility will include a 600-room hotel and will share a golf course with a twelve-year-old Club Med in a nearby town. Says Jean-Luc Oizan-Chapon, Club Med's chief operating officer: "We were here before the doors were open, and now our time has come...
Despite their different ways of handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...