Word: krone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when she returned to power, her gender was no longer much of an issue. The collapse of oil prices had left Norway high and dry and deep in debt: Brundtland dazzled both friends and foes with a perilous high-wire act. On one hand she capped wages, devalued the krone and clamped down on consumer credit in an effort to restore Norway's export markets. But at the same time she kept her promise to shorten the workweek to 37 1/2 hours, extend paid maternity leave to 24 weeks, and maintain generally Norway's fine-weave "safety...
...control up there, so I just took it faster and faster," said Kiehl, 23. A bit later, lanky Brigitte Oertli, the Swiss star no one hears about, edged Percy by .01 sec. for the silver medal. Two inexperienced U.S. women, Edith Thys, 21, and Kristen Krone, 19, swallowed their Olympic jitters, held their tucks and made their turns, and though the cameras did not show their courage, finished a creditable 18th and 20th. A cheer or two, please, for the merely excellent...
...policy to an American fear triggered by the sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians at the borders. As Newsweek put it, "The suspicion lingers that if 15,000 white Poles fleeing the crackdown showed up in New York Harbour, they would not be shipped off to Krone or Fort Allen [two Haitian detention campa...
After several seasons of extraordinarily high prices, Americans in Denmark will get a break. The dollar has appreciated 22% against the krone, while prices at tourist-oriented hotels and restaurants have risen only 5%. A new service for tourists is Dan-menu, a standard two-course Danish meal in many restaurants in Copenhagen and elsewhere for about...
...have been potent again this year. In freestyle wrestling and men's gymnastics, the U.S. and Japan would have given the Soviets all they could handle. But now gymnastic heart throb Kurt Thomas is an ABC sports commentator, and the wrestlers are mourning their lost opportunity. Says Don Krone, staff administrator for the A.A.U.'s wrestling division: "It may set our program back two or three years." With the U.S. men's basketball team at home, the gold medal should easily revert to the towering Soviets...