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...proceeding by stages, beginning with an effort to narrow the allowable fluctuations in exchange rates of Common Market currencies from the present 1½% to 1.2%. Nationalistic jealousies, or even a surge of inflation, could stall the effort. In their negotiations to enter the Common Market, however, Britain, Norway, Denmark and Ireland have accepted the concept of economic and monetary union. Europeans are increasingly convinced, says Triffin, that this may be the only way for them "to regain monetary sovereignty already lost...
Three commission members, aligned themselves with Nixon's position. In a minority report, they called the findings of the Commission a "Magna Carta for the pornographer," and said, "the commission is presumptuously recommending that the United States follow Denmark's lead in giving pornography free rein...
Lockhart was undisturbed by the parallel. "The number of sex crimes in Denmark has decreased since the pornography laws were removed," he said, "and the volume of sales of pornography within Denmark has gone down...
When Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875 at the age of 70, he was famous at home in Denmark. Some of the fairy tales on which his enduring name rests had already found their way into translation. But few people knew that the vain, morbid, brilliantly imaginative Dane was also a visual artist of real talent, or that his work, when viewed down the corridor of a century, would come to look quite "modern...
...principle of normalization was first formulated in Denmark and has become part of Danish and Swedish law. Except in extreme cases, a retarded person may not be deprived of his civil rights in either country. Government funds assure him a living standard comparable to that of a typical citizen in his community...