Word: sven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrewd Banker Wallenberg, however, has restricted himself to overseeing Ericsson's finances. To handle company operations, he brought in as president Sven Ture Aberg, 58, an imperturbable electrical engineer who negotiates with uncommon skill in five languages (Swedish, English, Spanish, French and German...
National Duty. Sven Aberg has "undiversified" Ericsson by selling off most of the telephone operating companies it once owned overseas. "Foreigners never get a fair return from the rate setters," he shrugs. Instead, he has concentrated on expanding Ericsson's equipment sales abroad. "For a company in a small country which depends on exports," he says, "this is a national duty...
...Bjorklund admits that his scheme to inoculate human patients with the vaccine at this time is a venturesome undertaking. But he explains that his work is at a pinnacle and he has "the courage to take a leap." Some of his colleagues, including Dr. Sven Gard, professor of virology at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, fear that he may be leaping too far too fast. In the conglomeration of materials in the Bjorklund vaccine, they argue, there may well be lurking some ingredients that can produce harmful side effects, even disease...