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Such trials can sometimes bring families closer. Marianne Svanberg, 88, a Swede, suffered a massive stroke while visiting her granddaughter Kim Gagne in Santa Rosa, Calif., in January, setting off a bitter generational row between Svanberg's daughters and granddaughters about whether to put her on a feeding tube. At one point, recalls Gagne, 40, "my mother and I had a big blowup, right there in front of the doctor." The granddaughters prevailed, and a tube was inserted, but Svanberg's condition worsened. She died on Feb. 19, leaving a family that was mournful, says Gagne, but knit tighter...
...last week. "Monetary union will lead to worse conditions in the workplace." It's difficult to fight against the politics of fear, but the yes side has raised the stakes in the debate by hinting Sweden faces a bleak future without the euro. In a newspaper article, Carl-Henric Svanberg, the CEO of phone-giant Ericsson, said that companies would stop investing in Sweden and might even move out of the country if voters reject the euro. Opponents note Denmark did precisely that in 2000 and nothing dire happened there. Persson has also been warning that Sweden...
CARL-HENRIC SVANBERG, Ericsson CEO, threatening to leave Sweden if its voters reject the euro this month
Carl-Henric Svanberg made his name and fortune from locks. As CEO of Sweden's Assa Abloy in the 1990s, he turned a local security company into the world's biggest lockmaker - acquiring over 100 new firms and restructuring them in a way that boosted Assa Abloy's stock twentyfold. When he left earlier this year, he took with him a personal fortune of $60 million. You might expect Svanberg, now 50, to ease into early retirement. But last month he took over as president and CEO of Ericsson, the sprawling Swedish telecom-equipment maker that's all locked...
Angry Norwegian protests that the convoy, aside from being ill-advised by the British, had been trapped through Nazi spy work led investigators to Svanberg. But a terse official announcement that a Nazi spy ring was believed broken up did not tell the whole story. Short-wave equipment capable of sending information on ship movements "halfway around the world" was confiscated and dozens of arrests made. British and Norwegians said a "bitter blow" had been struck at the U-boat campaign in the North Atlantic...