Word: bertel
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...returned to Grand Rapids to restart his law firm and pursue his interest in politics. His stepfather was active in local Republican affairs, and in 1948 Ford plunged in. He challenged the local incumbent Representative, Bertel Jonkman, in the G.O.P. primary and won, and then went on to win the general election, thanks in part to the support of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Ford's experiences in the war had turned him away from Midwestern Republican isolationism, which Vandenberg opposed as well. Three weeks before after the election, Ford, in a quiet ceremony, married Betty Warren, an attractive divorc?e...
...Denmark was a Sleeping Beauty country with a wall around it to protect us against all foreign influence," says Integration Minister Bertel Haarder. "Now globalization has come over this country, and we are experiencing the dark side of our social-welfare system." According to Haarder, more than half of Denmark's 300,000 immigrants (out of a total population of 5.3 million) are unemployed and living on welfare. Among some groups, including Somalis, the number of jobless is 90%. The social-welfare system is so generous, the government contends, that there is no incentive for refugees to find...
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