Word: slaven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody's got a better deal than Ken Slaven. Every day, eight of the Class A motor homes--the big ones--roll off a Coachmen assembly line manned by 185 workers who grunt, lift and sweat. And then Slaven, 50, sticks the keys in the ignition and takes each one for a road test...
...Lights, wipers, pressure gauges, shakes, rattles. I check everything," he says as we head out on his 20-mile course in a $72,000 Catalina with a queen-size bed and a factory-fresh scent. Slaven came in three years ago, after 20 years as national sales manager for Sears. He gave up $16,000 a year but spends more time with his wife. "I'd have to say it's just about the best job in the place...
...doesn't work. Slaven grabs his clipboard and makes a notation...
Similar secessionist fever in Croatia, meanwhile, nearly erupted in war when Belgrade accused Croatian defense minister Martin Spegelj of fomenting an armed insurrection. Federal troops were called in, and a tense standoff was resolved only when Croatia agreed to demobilize -- but not disarm -- its police reservists. Unrepentant, Slaven Letica, an aide to Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, declared, "If it comes to civil war, Croatia is willing to fight and confident that it will prevail...