Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Similar cutbacks will be required of a proposed Lufthansa-Scandinavian Air Services-United Airlines alliance, and the EU is expected later this year to set strict requirements for the European alliances planned by Delta and Northwest. With the importance of European markets growing amid Asia's decline, the battle for the continent's skies looks set to be the fiercest since...
...second-year medical student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Science and Technology, and Phillips, a speech writer, will be joined by a third Harvard affiliate, Daniel F. Melia '66, in the tournament. Melia is a professor of Scandinavian and Celtic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley...
Flavored with Scandinavian touches sure to warm the heart of any hobby linguist, the Doktor's lyrics reek of appealingly awkward translation: we see the roots of "Holiday" in a two-word compound, as well as the enclitic "yes" or "no" tacked on at the end of a sentence for emphasis ("You can't look back, no, no/You must look forward...
...find a vine-covered structure roofed over with polyurethane foam, looking oddly like the cottage in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian Identity compound has been making a big point of how Jesus ministered to outcasts. "My king ate with publicans and sinners and had a prostitute wash...
Minnesota's German and Scandinavian roots are reflected in its strong individuals, respect for work and generous social programs. Minnesotans take care of their own--the top 78 of the state's companies contribute 5% of their earnings to charity--and citizens participate in their government via local precinct caucuses. It's the land of 10,000 lakes and the Mall of America, the home of the Mayo Clinic and the state bird, the loon. These days the state of moderate Hubert Humphrey is also home to one of the nation's most vociferous antiabortion groups, as well...