Word: yugoslav
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...land, and regional officials have been slow to grant building permits because of concerns over unscrupulous practices and environmental impact. The only course in Istria is the oldest in the Balkans. The 18-holer on the Brijuni Islands is located on Marshal Tito's former private playground, where the Yugoslav dictator once hosted dignitaries and Hollywood stars. As if evoking Tito's fleeting and superficial glory, the course is left untended, and the greens are manicured by grazing deer...
...parent's request, Ivanovic practised in the early morning to avoid the bombing runs. Jankovic was playing junior tournaments in Europe at the time and had to take a seven-hour train ride to Budapest and make her way past suspicious immigration officers looking askance at her Yugoslav passport even to play. When the bombing started, 12-year-old Djokovic was sent to a Munich tennis academy. But he started tennis much earlier, at the age of 4, and his first mentor and coach, Jelena Gencic, was one of the top woman players in the former Yugoslavia...
...players," he said. His tongue-in-cheek explanation for why so many Serbs are suddenly playing at the top of the circuit? "Depleted uranium," a reference to munitions dropped on Serbia and blamed since then for all manner of ailments. Radmilo Armenulic, a long-time coach of the Yugoslav tennis team (until 1990) told TIME that the players' performance has been "amazing," although he admits that it has yet to have a major effect on the promotion of tennis in Serbia...
Dimitrijevic is multilingual and grew up in Switzerland in what he terms a Yugoslav family, a claim that offers some insight into emerging-market investing: it's always changing and evolving. In his presentation, Dimitrijevic proposes that emerging markets offer the best opportunities, even though markets such as India, China and Malaysia have had bubble-like runs. "Don't be fooled by sticker shock given their huge outperformance in recent years," he says. "We are witnessing a trend change in the fundamentals right now." And such fundamental changes are what macro traders love most...
...kind, inimitable and irreplaceable, as is proved by the actresses who tried to replace her. A TV remake of "Roman Holiday" starred Catherine Oxenberg, a Yugoslav princess, and lineal descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia. Julia Ormond had Audrey's role in a "Sabrina" remake; Thandie Newton took her part in "The Trouble With Charlie", a very distant approximation of "Charade". And Jessica Love Hewitt starred seven years ago in "The Audrey Hepburn Story". All were put in the shade by Audrey's ghost. Who'd dare? Why bother...