Word: scandinavia
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...contrast to Japan's youngsters, Scandinavia's teens almost take sex for granted. "There is not much talk about sex between teenagers," notes Stefan Laack of the Swedish Association for Sex Information, "yet it is widely accepted that they sleep with their boyfriends or girlfriends in their homes...
...phased out by international agreement -- is falling even faster than expected. That's the good news. The bad news is that cfcs already released are still drifting up through the atmosphere. New satellite data, reported in the current Nature, show that ozone levels over some northern parts of Canada, Scandinavia and Russia were 10% lower this winter than they were just one year...