Word: norwegians
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...Pennsylvania gave $307 million in economic incentives to Kvaerner ASA, a Norwegian global engineering and construction company, to open a shipyard at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and employ 950 people. Subsidy: $323,000 for each...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
...same time, it is important to have a diversity of voices, conservative and liberal alike, at Harvard. And the questions Mansfield raised are worth discussing. As for the choice of Commencement speaker, Mansfield cited three recent speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson. "They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," he said, suggesting that because of her conservativism, Margaret Thatcher might have been overlooked...
Westhagen studied Scandinavian dance as a child and says her father watches Norwegian television on an international channel at home...
...ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientist, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton proposed to force a passage by dogsled across the continent. The trek was intended to surpass the achievement of Shackleton's great rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who had reached the South Pole early in 1912 (narrowly preceded by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen) but had died with his four companions on the march back...