Word: oslo
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...When the telephone range at Trygve Haavelmo's house in Oslo yesterday morning, there was none of the usual surprised-by-joy reaction of a fellow learning he has been awarded the $455,000 Nobel Economics Prize," Warsh writes. "Instead, Hsavelmo was vexed about being called at home. He told the Reuter reporter: I Don't like the ideas of such prizes. I'm not going to talk about this on the phone, and I haven't thought it through. Don't write anything." The 78-year-old theorist then went out and was not heard from for the rest...
...leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request" and a handful of press inquiries to justify a rushed two-day hunt through 10 sets of confidential records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk's report makes clear that Mullins informed Baker of the searches on or around Oct. 1. When the searches proved futile, Tamposi and her colleagues suggested Clinton's files had been "tampered with" -- a claim that took the FBI seven days to dismiss. But those were seven days...
Over at the State Department, officials initially insisted that there was nothing unusual about their efforts to speed up Freedom of Information Act requests for records of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's youthful travels to Oslo and London -- even though such requests routinely take many months to process. Last week department spokesman Richard Boucher reversed himself, admitting that deviating from standard procedure was "clearly a mistake." But he blamed it on several unidentified "low-level people" and denied that political pressure had anything to do with the requests. That claim would be more convincing had it not followed another incident...
...interest in politics began early. While shewas a student at Oslo University, Brundtlandserved as the deputy chair of the Labor PartyStudent Union...
...graduated form the Medical School of theUniversity of Oslo in 1963 and received a master'sdegree in public health from the Harvard School ofPublic Health in 1965. She then began her career,as a health official, working as a medical officerfor the Norwegian Directorate of Health from 1966to 1968. In 1969, she was appointed assistantmedical director of the city of Oslo's Board ofHealth, a position she held until...