Word: scandinavia
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Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides to help Lars-Goren's kins man Gustav overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed...
...undeveloped or abandoned white farm land, would cost $165 million. The biracial Muzorewa regime never found financial backing for the resettlement scheme, a failing that contributed to its crushing electoral defeat last month. But Mugabe's government has already sought pledges of substantial aid from the U.S., Britain, Scandinavia and Western Europe-but not from the Soviet bloc. Foreign assistance will be sorely needed: estimates for rebuilding the war-torn nation range close to $6 billion...
Already it has killed off the fish in about a hundred lakes in New York's Adirondack wilderness. It has pelted the slopes of the Rockies, and has already affected Scandinavia and much of industrialized Western Europe and Japan. It is a newly recognized and increasingly harmful kind of pollution, invisible and insidious: acid rain, a corrosive precipitation that actually consists of weak solutions of sulfuric and nitric acids...
Imports, mostly from Scandinavia, continental Europe and Japan, account for about a quarter of British steel consumption...
...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...