Word: danishes
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Faculty members said Schama's expertise in narrative history and his wide range of interests, from the history of Danish culture to 20th century western European history, are an important asset to the department...
...people Americans have put in the White House. Every U.S. President except for the all-Dutch Martin Van Buren has descended in whole or part from the three largest white demographic groups. In the 1980s the Democrats tried to vary the mix by fielding Norwegian-Italian and Greek- Danish tickets. Last year they reverted to form and managed to replace George Herbert Walker Bush with William Jefferson Clinton...
...interest rates, dropping its key Lombard rate from 9.5% to 9% and discount rate from 8.25% to 8%. The surprise move defused the latest crisis in Europe's linked exchange-rate system caused by a 10% devaluation of the Irish punt and a fierce attack by speculators on the Danish krone, one of Europe's strongest currencies. The rate cut also buoyed the sinking British pound, which last year was forced completely out of the currency grid by Germany's high interest rates. The action should lead to similar cuts in other European countries, ravaged by high unemployment and tottering...
...corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...
...DRILL THAT HAS GROWN ALL TOO FAMILIAR, SALvage and fire-control specialists were rushed to the scene of a burning oil tanker, this time near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's Malaccan Strait. The Danish-owned Maersk Navigator, carrying 78 million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers...