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Word: scandinavia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Earth Shoes originate somewhere in Scandinavia? No, Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FATE OF THE EARTH SHOE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...provides-is a glorious haven. Known technically as an anonymous remailer, it is the network equivalent of a Swiss bank: a conduit by which users can ship data around the world in complete anonymity. Dozens of anonymous remailers have sprouted up in recent years-many of them in Scandinavia -but none is as popular or as trusted as Helsingius' service, known as Penet. For the past three years, networkers around the world have used his node on the Internet as a transfer point for the most sensitive and explosive information, secure in the assurance that it could never be traced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNMASKED ON THE NET | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...conducted his organization's business literally on the fly, from capital to capital, in constant search of support. Now when he needs to settle down with voluminous reports on the structure of a new governing authority, he still prefers to be out of his office -- last week he toured Scandinavia -- and he does not delegate full decision-making powers to his aides while he is gone. In protest, two of his most trusted lieutenants, Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Abed Rabbo, boycotted an executive committee meeting last week, forcing Arafat to postpone it for lack of a quorum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Rebels to Rulers | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...immigrant Swedes disembarking en masse from cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Migration | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...looking at something large, somber, mutilated and of irresistible physical power. Brenson points out that the War Games pieces are all, in some degree, elegiac; they convey a mourning for < violated nature, because nearly all the forests of Poland have been cut down and sold off as timber to Scandinavia since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Visions Of Primal Myth | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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