Word: scandinavia
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That face has not come across everywhere, of course. Scandinavia, with its costly welfarism, seems to have pulled out of the market for radical solutions, at least temporarily. Britain, for its part, still seems content to be the country in which Marx is buried. Cambridge University's debating society next fall will discuss "Is Marxism Dead?" The Marxist resurrection seems to be confined mainly to Western Europe's three most populous states...
Laws are more restrictive, but increasingly flexible, in Scandinavia and Great Britain. In 1938, Sweden became the first of the Scandinavian countries to moderate its statutes, and the law has become increasingly permissive over the years. In addition to allowing abortion for medical, eugenic and ethical (in cases of rape or incest) reasons, Sweden now permits it to protect "mental health," a term that can be broadly interpreted to justify abortion for almost any reason. However, the country requires a detailed investigation before permission is granted, and until 1965 permission was in fact denied...
...econometrics, a branch of economics that employs complex mathematical formulas to predict how a change in one of a national economy's variables will affect the others. While Tinbergen applied econometrics to underdeveloped countries, Frisch worked closer to home and came to be regarded as the father of Scandinavia's modern planned economic systems...
Johnson & Johnson has contracted to market the product in the U.S., and Sweden's drugmaking AB Astra has signed up to sell it in Scandinavia. J. & J. will begin a test-marketing program in 1973. Bio-Medical has built a pilot plant in Fairfield, N.J., to make the thermometers and has applied for patents in more than 30 countries...
...that is insufficient, Americans can point to new arrivals who retain the same dream of their forebears. The new immigration codes may have changed the complexion of the immigrants: Mexico and the Philippines are now the No. 1 and 2 countries sending citizens to America; Scandinavia is not even among the top 25. But the tales remain the same: juntas and taxes, poverty and oppression left behind...