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Free Services. The public unrest also reveals a growing dissatisfaction of many Danes with the cost of their cradle-to-grave social-welfare system, pioneered by the Social Democratic Party, which has been the country's major party for the past half-century. Increasingly, Danes question whether they can afford a constant expansion of state services that include free kindergartens, hospitals, university education, generous old-age and disability pensions, and liberal housing subsidies. More than 550,000 bureaucrats are on the public payroll against only 415,000 workers employed in all Danish manufacturing. An average of $800 is spent...
...after the ribs. A lot of people had collected for the big feast, and Rick Stacy was slowly basting the ribs with barbeque sauce, not concentrating on anything in particular. There were 27 pounds of ribs to be gone through that night, and Mike the four foot tall Great Dane decided he would avoid the hog traps that night and hang around the rib fire where he occupied himself scratching hard, trying to fit parts of his body against a bush which shook like a storm all night...
SATURDAY: UCLA vs Notre Dane. Sooper hoopers, the two top-rated teams in the country, Channel...
...rough, schematic set of plans and elevations that showed a flowering of concrete shells, like sails or beaks, rising to a height of more than 200 ft. above a horizontal podium. There was only the sketchiest indication of function. The architect, an almost unknown 38-year-old Dane named Jørn Utzon, had worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before...
Mitchell's answer was baffling: "The President cannot deal with all of the mun dane problems that go on from day to day. He had to deal with the greater problems." But then he made his point: "He should not have been involved in these matters that bore directly upon his election, and he should have been protected from the knowledge of them...