Word: scandinavian
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...understandably furious, with Sweden - which currently holds the chair of the European Union - describing Bush's move as "appalling and provocative," and the EU vowing to send a top-level delegation to plead with Bush to reverse his decision. But the President is unlikely to be swayed by Scandinavian invective, or even by Europe's reasoned entreaties to take global warming more seriously, after essentially rejecting the same advice from his environment secretary, Christie Whitman. Bush made clear Thursday that he was willing to work with U.S. allies to address the question of global warming, but would not contemplate...
When Sweden announced that it would grant fewer than a dozen digital television licenses, the government got some 63 applications. Among the well-established TV operators and technology titans were two women: Annie Wegelius, 42, who founded and sold a leading Scandinavian TV production company, and her friend Maria Borelius, 41, a biologist who had produced and presented popular science programs on TV. At the time, they had no financial backing and no business plan. "All we had was a big idea, says Wegelius...
...Mitchell's own research focuses on witchcraft in the Scandinavian world, especially in the later Middle Ages, but his research has also encompassed other areas and periods...
...Biathlon also tapped into a lurking element of my Scandinavian pride (I am of Swedish heritage). I remember reading about vastly outnumbered ski-borne Finnish troops' earning the nickname "white death" for repeatedly confounding and outmaneuvering the Russian army during the Second World War. I also remember an account from 1943 of a group of Norwegian commandos who successfully skied overland all the way to Sweden (over 250 miles) after blowing up a Nazi heavy water facility that was a key component in Hitler's attempt to manufacture an atomic bomb. More than a few sports have some type...
...Speeding through the park at the height of summer on strange-looking wheeled units attached to Day-Glo Nordic ski boots and preposterously long poles is one of the few ways to actually attract attention in New York City. It took some time to reconcile my inherently low-key Scandinavian temperament with the whole public-spectacle thing - the unself-conscious stares, the involuntary comments, the tourists scrambling for their cameras etc., etc. For the first few weeks I just gritted my teeth and applied my "gotta finish what I've started" attitude to get through my all-too-public workouts...