Word: icelanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NATO's members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark. France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, U.S., West Germany...
Even in Scandinavia, where government control has been pervasive and popular, citizens in recent elections have called for less of it. After 44 years in office, Sweden's Socialists were voted out in 1976, and last year they were again defeated. Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland have all moved to the center in their latest elections...
...public success, the doctor remained intensely private. Associates regarded him as brilliant-but austere, humorless and egotistical. "Medicine was his life," said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained...
Only nine countries in the world had an unblemished record: Austria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Fiji, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada and Costa Rica. The U.S. was not listed among them. Though not charged expressly with political repression, it is nonetheless criticized for the resumption in some states of the death penalty, which Amnesty International seeks to abolish everywhere...
...skirmishing off Iceland was only a warmup for next week's activities in London. At the plush Cafe Royal banquet hall, representatives of the 22 member nations of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will gather for their 31st annual conference since the protective body's founding in 1946. Disdained in past years as a private whalers' club that supports the estimated $650 million industry by setting excessively liberal whale-kill quotas (this year's total was 20,102), the IWC, under its youthful new chairman, Thordur Asgeirsson, 37, could do much this year to change...