Word: detlef
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yugoslavia to the silver medal at Seoul. This time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best three-point shooters. But even if you put all these players on one squad, it would make no difference. The remaining 11 teams in the Olympic tournament will be scuffling for silver...
...initiatives are there. Eastern entrepreneurs, including former communist managers, are adapting with surprising speed and energy to the market system. Detlef Naujokat, 49, a former food and beverage manager for an East Berlin hotel, has launched a $30 million real estate development in the village of Sommerfeld, 19 miles north of Berlin, as full of promise -- and risks -- as any dreamed up in the west. "This is the first time in our lives that we have been able to do anything like this," he says. "We'll subdivide and install the infrastructure first, then sell the plots and help...