Word: finlandized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were liquidated in the 1937- 38 purges, and became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy was out of date...
...taken them. They reanalyzed their data to rule out hypertension itself as a cause or accelerator of breast cancer and also found no association with the alternative hypertension drugs. Cautious to a degree and determined not to be alarmist, the Boston group invited eminent epidemiologists in England and Finland to run a similar check. Their results were essentially the same...
...insubstantial link between the verbal minuetting of the English-dadaist group and the heavy, teutonic oratory Stoppard puts in the mouths of Lenin and his sentimental wife, Krupskaya. The one diplomatic assignment Carr receives, which he first discovers once Lenin's train is safely on its way to the Finland Station, is to make sure, at all costs, that the Russian leader does not leave Switzerland...
...number of democratic governments are merely crippling along. Since 1973, the governments of all nine Common Market nations have changed hands. Shaky coalitions exist in Belgium, Finland and Israel, vulnerable minority governments in Britain, Denmark and Sweden. Italy stumbles on with virtually no government...
Worldwide the situation is not much different. Finland leads Europe in the numbers of highly placed women, with Sweden a fairly distant second, but Britain and France are not progressing toward sexual parity any faster than the U.S. There are far more women than men in medicine in the Soviet Union, on the other hand, while 37% of the country's lawyers and 32% of its engineers are female...