Vis Off-limits to foreign visitors for around four decades, Vis is a mysterious island that's truly off the trodden path.
"My enduring memory of last time is seeing a guy in a high-vis jacket off a building site lean down and pat Xolo the dog.
The first project has assembled a huge mass of qualitative empirical data on research activities inside Russian universities, industry's expectations vi-a-vis the spin-offs of academic research, and on the various modes of collaboration between the two entities.
It will do so on the assumption the public will tolerate a stunningly high national deficit only if it produces a rapid pay-off vis-à-vis jobs.
Government cuts have gradually squeezed their luminous signs and hi-vis jackets off the streets and into strip-lit council building storage rooms, with dozens of school crossing patrols axed in boroughs including Brent, Wandsworth, and Lambeth.
Or is there another explanation for why and how liberal expectations could be so off-base vis a vis the reality of the current crop of increasingly powerful feminist war hawks?
The Yugoslav Navy deployed three tactical groups (TGs) named Kaštela, Vis and Ploče off the coast of central Dalmatia from its bases on the islands of Vis and Lastovo.
Even some officials in the Clinton administration, despite its hands-off policy vis-a-vis the Federal Reserve, are challenging the Fed's view that an inflationary labor shortage is developing.
Hugh: Oh dear, it seems Pike's recent foray into rubbish 3D films, vis-à-vis Wrath of the Titans, has rubbed off on her fashion sense, judging by the unfortunate immersiveness of this nausea-inducing print.
Now, Kid Rock has never really given us any reason to form any sort of an opinion of him vis-a-vis Tommy Lee before, but he's coming off as the man of high principle in this little version of events, wouldn't you say?
Back at De Gouden Vis (Nauwstraat 7, just off Vismarkt), I make my farewells and step outside on to Vismarkt, the former fish market on the river quay that is Mechelen's most potent symbol of regeneration.
