Word: scandinavia
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...ordinary demonstration. The protesters wore business suits and designer dresses; their placards showed pictures of idyllic vacation spots in Scandinavia, Austria and China, with FINISHED scrawled across them. Many of the marchers were travel agents who had come to protest the potential loss of 9,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in vacation billings...
...offensive. For several years, Danish intelligence monitored numerous secret meetings between Arne Petersen, a Danish peace activist and writer, and three KGB agents. According to the Danish Ministry of Justice, the KGB promised to help finance advertisements officially sponsored by Petersen and signed by prominent Danish artists who wanted Scandinavia to be declared a nuclear-free zone. In November 1981, Norway expelled a suspected KGB agent who had offered bribes to Norwegians to get them to write letters to newspapers denouncing the deployment of new NATO missiles...
...information on U.S. economic affairs, especially Europe-based Americans, had to hunt down an airmailed edition of the Wall Street Journal. That course invariably left them at least a day late and, depending upon exchange rates, nearly a dollar short. Last week, however, at some 2,000 newsstands from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia, a new daily arrived: the Wall Street Journal/Europe, which is edited in Brussels, printed in The Netherlands and delivered before noon to about a dozen countries. Said first-day Reader Paul Home, an economist for Smith Barney in Paris: "It has acres of coverage...
...penetrated by German agents. An anti-Nazi official who was slipping papers to Allen Dulles, Donovan's man in Switzerland, was mistakenly suspected of being a German double agent. Although Winston Churchill was a Donovan drinking buddy, the British undermined efforts to put OSS agents in the Balkans, Scandinavia, Burma, India and other places where their own agents were already at work...
...trapped beneath layers of moss on the bottom; the afflicted water cannot support any but the most primitive forms of life. Some areas, rich in alkaline limestone, are able to resist the assault by "buffering" or neutralizing acid precipitation. But much of New York, New England, eastern Canada and Scandinavia is covered with thin, rocky topsoil left by glaciers long ago, and is particularly vulnerable to acid rain...