Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports expert Roger Noll of Stanford University. Last year the N.B.A. took in some $1.4 billion, excluding licensed merchandise, and its revenues are increasing some 15% annually. N.B.A. commissioner David Stern's global strategy has helped boost demand for the game. The N.B.A. is becoming as popular in Zagreb as it is in Chicago. Here the owners are counting on a fat increase when their network contract comes due in 1998. The current one, with NBC, pays them $187.5 million a year...
...Hans Hogerzeil, of the WHO's Action Program on Essential Drugs, says the problem is widespread: 45% of donations received in 1994 by the WHO office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn...
...chatted, the Commerce Secretary could barely contain his enthusiasm over a scheme he had just cooked up involving 200 Big Macs, which he had managed to persuade a McDonald's manager in Croatia to give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them out to the U.S. troops he would be visiting. That gesture was pure Ron Brown: part theater, part business, with an eye on self-interest and a generous touch...
...peacekeeping effort in the Balkans, as well as to lobby on behalf of the 12 American industry leaders in his delegation who hoped to grab a piece of $5 billion in reconstruction aid already promised to Bosnia. After leaving Paris, Brown and his party spent the night in Zagreb, then proceeded to Tuzla, where the Secretary delivered his Big Macs. The troops were thrilled. Then around 2 p.m., Brown's entourage boarded an Air Force T-43 for the coastal town of Dubrovnik, where one of the worst storms in a decade was raging...
Burglars broke into the U.N. Center for Human Rights in Zagreb, Croatia, and stole four computers containing data on human-rights violations in Croatia that had been gathered during four years of research. While some of the information had been copied and stored elsewhere, the rest was not backed up anywhere, making the loss appear irretrievable. Said the center's director: "At this point we would like to avoid any political interpretation" of the data's theft...