Word: finlandization
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...Nordic tradition, and Scandinavia's parliamentary representatives meet annually to coordinate their countries' laws. Doctors or teachers can practice anywhere in Scandinavia. Citizens move freely across borders, and criminals sentenced in another country can even serve their jail terms in their homeland. Now, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are moving to carry their friendship a step further by creating Nordek-a Nordic economic community...
Among the most mysterious of all cancers is the one that afflicts the stomach. Why is it especially common in countries as far apart and as different as Japan, Finland and Chile? Why is it so rare in most of the U.S., and particularly in the Southern states-except among Negroes? Why, in all countries, is the disease associated with poverty...
Though soya-paste molds might go far to explain the high incidence of stomach cancer in most of the Orient, they offer no clues to medical researchers in Finland, Chile or Costa Rica. But a combination of vitamin A deficiency with comparable molds or diet contaminants could conceivably be found in those places. In the U.S., vitamin A deficiency is known to be prevalent among Southern Negroes, and aflatoxins have been found in peanuts...
...they only other game, Czechoslovakia came from behind to defeat Finland and tie the Soviet Union for first place in the six-team tourney...
...shares the cellar in the standings with Finland...