Word: sven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is so certain to rile the normally subdued Swedes as taxes. With reason. The average Swedish worker must turn over about half of his earnings to finance the cradle-to-grave welfare society, and for the self-employed the tax bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven Stolpe was so disgusted by his tax assessment that he threatened to burn all his unpublished manuscripts. An actor even set himself ablaze last March outside Stockholm's tax office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic...
...trying to do was stop him from beating Sven," Matthews said, adding that the police used unnecessary force because he did nothing to threaten them...
...Sven M. Grammerstorf '83 said that police held him for four hours without permitting him to make a phone call...
...know why the guy started hitting Sven. The attack was totally unprovoked." Matthews said, adding that after he tried to intervene in the fight, the police began punching both of them in the head and stomach...
...ultimate box is the product of Dr. Sven-Olof Lidholm, who had the idea for it 15 years ago while identifying victims of an airplane accident in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It weighs 60 Ibs., about half as much as a wooden casket, but supports a weight of 800 lbs. Lidholm says that the cardboard one would be particularly useful after natural disasters. In southern Italy, many survivors of last month's earthquake were forced to bury relatives in coffins bought on the black market at high prices...