Word: finlandization
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...around between East and West. Chirac demonstrated his commitment to monetary union, if not his political smarts, when he called the snap election in hopes of securing control of his parliament for the next five years. The Benelux countries are on board the money plan, and Ireland, Spain and Finland are eager. In an interview last week Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told TIME, "The euro must happen on time," that is, on Jan. 1, 1999. And, he predicted, "Italy will be in the EMU," or the Economic and Monetary Union...
...Cmdr. David Wade, chief of staff at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, yesterday on the ability of President Clinton to travel to Finland next week, where he is scheduled to meet with Russian Prime Minister Boris N. Yeltsin. The President tore a tendon in his right knee earlier that morning in a stumble on wooden stairs at golfer Greg Norman's Florida home...
...addition, Dale says, the magazine will soon add a registration page so that it can see who is accessing the site. Current information indicates that "about 20 percent of hits are international," with readers from such countries as Finland, Slovakia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates...
...years Phil Rosenthal pursued his rock-'n'-roll dream without much reward. He moved to Los Angeles. He started a Beatlesesque pop band, Twenty Cent Crush, and signed with the tiny label Not Lame Records. He cut a single, Sunday Girl, that was a hit in Finland, of all places. Stateside, however, his band was nowhere...
...alas!), social engineering of the genetic variety was not meant to be. Researchers from the United States and Finland announced recently that, despite attempts to replicate the results in two groups of Finnish men, they did not detect any connection between novelty-seeking and the longer gene variant of the so-called dopamine D4 receptor gene that was purported to correlate with it. The conclusion of these researchers: "These data suggest that D4DR may require re-evaluation as a candidate gene for personality variation...