Word: yugoslavia
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...more than a month, newspapers in Yugoslavia have been dribbling out the details of the country's biggest financial scandal since World War II. The scam centers on Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm that issued up to $400 million in worthless promissory notes to 63 Yugoslav banks. So far eight people, including the firm's president, have been arrested. The scandal, dubbed "Agrogate" by the local press, took a dramatic turn last week. As allegations mounted that he and his family were implicated, Hamdija Pozderac, 63, Yugoslavia's Vice President, abruptly resigned. He had been scheduled to begin...
...looked at the guest register for that day, and found a bunch of Israels and Utahs and Hong Kongs, as well as scattered representatives of London, Yugoslavia, Alberta, Tegucigalpa, Paris, Hungary and Oslo...
...settings of furniture from 1,500 worldwide suppliers. Office chairs? IKEA has 14 designs. Lamps? There are versions that stand and hang and squat, each labeled in English, Danish, German, French and Swedish. The displays include kitchen tables from Rumania, nightstands from Italy, bookshelves from West Germany, desks from Yugoslavia and mattresses (no assembly needed) from Canada...
Matej Gaspar, born last week in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, officially became the world's 5 billionth human. The baby boy received that designation rather arbitrarily. No one knows for sure when the earth's population, which hit 4 billion in 1974, actually topped the 5 billion mark, though demographers suspect it happened in July. Zagreb was picked as the location by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities largely because U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar happened to be in that city when the chosen day rolled around. In a speech marking the occasion, Perez de Cuellar drew attention...
There is life after Henley for the Crimson. Harvard is currently competing in the World University Games in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, which end July...