Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnian hijacker today commandeered a Scandinavian plane with 129 passengers aboard before surrendering at day's end to Oslo police. He demanded that supply lines to Muslim areas in his troubled homeland be opened tohumanitarian aid. The hijacker took control of a Scandinavian Airlines System flight Thursday afternoon as it flew between the Norwegian towns of Bardufoss and Bodo. After 52 people were allowed off at Bodo, the plane flew 500 miles south to an Oslo airport. The hijacker claimed to have a grenade and threatened to blow up the plane if it was stormed by police. In a tape...
...fact, the novel becomes a tender examination of fairness and forgiveness. The "Americans" come to seem as inscrutable as the Japanese, as clannish and as sparing with their feelings. And the divisions between the two are only intensified by their affinities: when the reticent descendants of samurai meet laconic Scandinavian fishermen, one form of silence glances off another...
...personal victory for Foreign Minister Alois Mock, who campaigned tirelessly for approval despite fragile health. Euro-enthusiastic Finns should give thumbs up Oct. 16. But Sweden's pro-E.U. forces remain outnumbered, and in Norway, the last to vote, on Nov. 28, opposition is at 52% and rising. Scandinavian Euro-boosters were hurt by last week's parliamentary results in Denmark, where anti-E.U. parties got a quarter of the vote...
...what amounts to somewhat of a gamble students will be able to have their payment rate be contingent upon their incomes, with the more financially successful paying higher rates. Similar programs have been tried in Canada, Australia and some Scandinavian countries...
...great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen to the whole room applaud the bid as though they had just heard Pavarotti sing Vesti la Giubba...