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Assuming that the U.S. economy remains on course, the board gave encouraging forecasts for the European Community's major economies and Scandinavia...
...water level dropped, other Thais rescued them. Beran and Spraggon knew how lucky they were. They don't know what happened to the Swedish child after she was rescued or whether her family survived. Tens of thousands of Europeans - including an especially large number escaping the wintertime darkness of Scandinavia - were enjoying the Asian sunshine when the tsunami hit. Hundreds are confirmed dead - Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Frenchmen, Britons, Germans, Danes and on and on - with thousands still missing. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke of "an incomprehensible tragedy of national...
...even costlier. In Spain, Zapatero is hoping to push his country in the Scandinavian direction by urging companies to set up child-care facilities, subsidizing university fees and promoting long-term employment over short-term contracts. More generous policies like those of France and Scandinavia would require higher taxes, a trade-off many European governments aren't willing to make. "What we need is a good cocktail," says Lesthaeghe, "more policies aimed at promoting flexibility between work and home - day-care centers, early schooling, flex time - but also a doubling of immigration rates and higher participation in the labor market...
...dirtiest joke you ever heard," and then proceeds to do so - in Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative Muslim immigrants in socially and sexually permissive Scandinavia. She makes jokes about everything from the facial hair of fundamentalists to the operations some engaged Muslim women in Norway undergo to make it appear they're still virgins. She also satirizes the Norwegians themselves, with their "booze-and-pork" culture and "progressive" family structures in which a single child...
...would argue, Israel. It's important to look at basically how American this industry is. You cannot duplicate this. Other countries have tried. That said, a number of European pension funds have just gained the right to invest in these kinds of funds, and there is great interest in Scandinavia, Australia and Singapore...