Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...market index sank to its lowest level in 17 years, new numbers showed that industrial output and retail sales are slowing more dramatically than expected and, in the unkindest cut of all, credit rating agency Moody's said it might downgrade Japanese government bonds to the same level as Slovenia's. Slovenia...
...October will have several European works that sound interesting. Top Shelf publishes "Miniburger," an actual box containing a set of mini-comix selected by the Slovenian editors of "Stripburger," which will include works from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, and France. The Bries publishing company will put out "Louis Armstrong," by Philip Paquet, a Belgian, about Satchmo's early days, and "Tango with Death," by Ulf K., a German, made up of short stories involving...
...chart-type appeal in the U.S. So, as we in Public Enemy did, they went around the world first. They scoured countries trying to build their reputation and audience the right way, by paying their dues two or three hours at a time in places such as Ljubljana, Slovenia, that most Americans haven't heard of. That's an everlasting statement of their commitment to the craft, and it's one of the criteria that separate them from the Wu-Tang Clan and other great hip-hop acts. Wu-Tang has as many seeds of interest across the world...
...Goteborg. On the day of Bush's visit for a summit meeting with the leaders of the 15 nations in the European Union, the most significant street protest was a mass mooning of the President. But once Bush had left for Warsaw, and then for a meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the mood turned ugly. The now familiar demonstrators against globalization tossed cobblestones at police, burned cars and smashed windows. Unable to move freely through the streets, the European leaders were forced to hold their customary dinner in the cordoned-off conference center rather than...
...their own people under varying degrees of control. For the neo-Soviets who run Russia these days, this is reassuring. But like their Soviet predecessors, they also want major world powers to consult them, include them, respect them. This is what they miss and what, for a weekend in Slovenia at least, they will get. Too bad they have to go home when it's over...