Word: kjell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...measure of how Europe is changing that Funky Business authors Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, professors at the Stockholm School of Economics, are considered radical prophets of consumerism. Their message is hardly new in the heartland of capitalism, the U.S., but it is a revelation in Sweden, where the state-led economy has long held sway. Nordstrom and Ridderstrale claim that in the new wired world, employees and consumers, not capitalists, hold the real power. The only unique asset companies have, they say, is the brainpower of their employees. The corporation is us, the means of production ours. Demand seldom...
...power, and there is no such balance. There is virtually no protection for Africans against the imported goods and surplus produce from Europe that are being dumped on the market. For many Africans, life is solely a matter of survival and freedom of speech has very little meaning. KJELL-ERIK NORDLIE Vallset, Norway...
...Pittsburgh's Kjell Samuelsson needed over 100 stitches to the face when he was brutally high-sticked in the mouth last Thursday. Samuelsson was out for the first game of Pittsburgh's second-round series with New Jersey...
...boomerang. His counterpart in the marauders is Wez (Vernon Wells), a Feral Kid gone wrong. War-painted and Apache-coiffed, Wez has a mind that performs acrobatics of sadism and a scream that sounds like stripped gears. But Wez is a Muppet compared with his leader, the lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), "warrior of the wasteland, the ayatullah of rock-and-rollah." The Humungus malevolence courses through his huge pectorals, pulses visibly under his bald, sutured scalp. He is the meanest, strongest man left in the world. But Max is the best...
...regular citizen struggles against a wall of bureaucracy. People have waited 20 years before receiving their disability pensions. I know a woman who applied for 'single provider assistance.' She is still waiting for an answer and her 'child' is now 35 years old." Complains Kjell Lorentsen, a schoolmaster in northern Norway: "Responsibility for any decision seems to dissolve into powder...