Word: goteborg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kalmar system was worked out by Pehr Gyllenhammar, Volvo's managing director (see box). Three years ago, when he stepped in as chief executive, he had to cope with an incredibly high labor turnover rate. At Volvo's main assembly plant near Goteborg, turnover reached an annual rate of 41% in 1971, even though the company pays some of the highest wages in Swedish industry...
Sweden's Holger Hyden, 56, director of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Goteborg, has found even more convincing evidence that proteins play a role in learning. Hyden (pronounced he-dayn) trained rats and then killed them so that their brains could be studied. He found that certain nervous-system proteins were produced in greater amounts during the first part of learning, when the animals were striving to cope with a new problem; overtraining the animals produced no higher levels of the substances. Hyden then injected animals with antibodies against the protein, which is called...
...since been awarded an honorary M.D. by the University of Goteborg...
...defected to the West. "Sport there was work by which one earned money. I was pushed all the time. In the end, 1 did not even do it for the money. I did it to get out." Adds Giinter Zoller, who defected during the European figure-skating championships at Goteborg, Sweden, last January: "From the age of 13, I was reared for medals. The time comes when you're fed up with...
...Education Minister, marched in a Stockholm candlelight parade to protest American war policies. The Apollo 11 astronauts' world tour last fall pointedly omitted Sweden, and two months ago, Sweden announced that it would send Hanoi $45 million in reconstruction aid. In reply, the U.S. closed its consulate in Goteborg. More significantly, the U.S. has not had an ambassador in Stockholm since William Heath departed one year...