Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best. Nykanen first slid off the roof of his childhood home at 7, got his first skis two years later, and did more jumps at 12 than most of his competitors do now. "When I met him, Matti was making 3,000 to 4,000 jumps a year," said Paavo Komi, a professor who worked with the budding star in his native Jyvaskyla. "Now he jumps nearly 6,000 times each year, in contrast to 3,000 to 4,000 for most jumpers." Part of this is the dogged will to win. The rest, Nykanen says, is pure...
...Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. The odds of Soviet success in that objective are just about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy is to "lord it over other countries," meaning the West Europeans...