The Bulgarian's corner was only cleared back to him and he fired in another dangerous inswinger that bounced off George McCartney into the path of Vassell, who finished with aplomb from the edge of the six-yard box.

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One Bulgarian call-centre, for example, reckons that it takes only four months to teach German-speaking employees to answer calls in Dutch as well.

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Formerly celebrated in some thirty nearby Bulgarian and Greek villages, Nestinarstvo remains today in Bulgari, a village of only a hundred persons.

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