Word: alls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To much of the world, Scandinavia, rather than the U.S., represents the ideal of an economic Utopia. Sweden has the world's second highest per capita income; Denmark, Norway and Finland also rank high. All four are free of slums, hunger and extreme poverty. All enjoy steady economic growth...
Sweden has not had a major strike since 1945. Norway has had no strikes at all since 1965. Denmark has a less enviable record, but in terms of work days lost by strikes, it is almost 50 times better than the U.S.'s.
A stated goal of Sweden's National Trade Union Confederation, or Lands-organisation, is "to give due consideration to the effect of wage developments on the national economy." Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker...
ATTITUDE: Each side takes care not to surprise the other. A labor-management committee meets three times yearly to discuss the next moves. It helps, too, that, as Clas-Erik Odhner, a top official of Sweden's LO, puts it, "everyone knows everyone else. We are all friends."
No people gulp more pills than Americans. Each year the nation's 65,000 pharmacies and 7,137 hospitals fill a billion prescriptions, mostly pills. Amazingly, in an era when men walk on the moon, millions of high-priced man-hours are wasted counting all the pills by hand...