Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social worker, who looks like a Bergman beauty. He has written three books about society, industry, the future. He is a world-class sailor and plays a folk guitar. At 34, he became president of Sweden's largest insurance company. At 36, he rose to president of Scandinavia's biggest industrial combine, Volvo. Now, at 44, age is beginning to show, but he still is boyishly trim in his blue blazers or weekend jeans. In sum, Pehr Gyllenhammar...
...Topeka plant was not an anomaly. Others in the U.S. and Scandinavia have also suggested that blue-collar workers may not be as incompetent as is traditionally presumed. Their knowledge and motivation can dramatically improve a company's financial health...
...Scandinavia, no concessions had to be wrung from the government or from private sources. During the German occupation, Denmark had saved some 7,000 Jews by spiriting them to Sweden; and before he disappeared in Russia, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, had saved nearly 30,000 Hungarian Jews by arranging special trains and supplying false papers. Yet no matter how the commissioners praised members of the Danish resistance, the veterans kept insisting that they had only done "the normal thing." Conceded Christian Theologian Roy Eckardt, chairman of Lehigh University's religion department: "Perhaps it was the normal thing...
...also met with a rather cool response. No foreign leader criticized President Carter publicly. But British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has long implied that the U.S. was being wickedly self-indulgent by using so much energy, and in off-the-record conversations top government aides in West Germany and Scandinavia were furious. "Another breach of promise," declared an adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, referring to Carter's follow-up on his pledge at the Tokyo summit to produce a tough energy policy...
...Norse explorer Eric the Red, who landed on the island in the 10th century, named the grim, gray island Greenland in hopes of luring settlers from Scandinavia and Iceland. By 1500 the climate had killed off Eric's heirs, leaving only the Eskimos who had migrated through the Arctic from Asia. Denmark colonized the island in the 18th century, and made it a Danish county in 1953; discussions on home rule began...