Word: rgensen
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Europe's hottest political issues, the Common Market in the long run will be judged more by its success in improving the quality of European life. Underlining the need to "appeal to the imagination of future generations," as Denmark's new Prime Minister, Anker Jörgensen, put it, members agreed on the need to delve into social issues that the Market has not faced before: problems of employment, consumer protection, the environment, the role of multinational corporations, and the treatment of Western Europe's approximately 6,000,000 "guest workers." Besides the long-term effect that...
...Swedes created the hemmaman, a housebound husband who sent his wife off to work. Last year the Swedes also changed much of their auto industry by replacing sections of the assembly line with group assembly techniques (TIME, Jan. 17). Now R. BØg JØrgensen's Maskinfabrik, a Danish company that is Scandinavia's largest maker of food canning and freezing equipment, is pioneering an alternative to the weekly or monthly paycheck for employees...
...adopting the novel system, Paul BØg JØrgensen, manager of the family-owned company, was able to eliminate the payroll department. Improbably, he seems to have improved employee morale too. Workers like the new arrangement because getting their pay in big chunks enables them to buy household supplies at low bulk prices and come up more easily with down payments for cars, houses and large appliances. Indeed, the system is working so well that several other Danish, and some foreign concerns are thinking of copying...
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