Word: swede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have nothing else besides that concrete keepsake and a remarkable earnest portrait in the family album to remind us of Carl Stanley Flanders' Yale football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts...
...Typical Swede...
...cannot agree with the Social Democratic politician [Oct. 4] who regards "clever, honest" Falldin as typically Swedish. The typical 20th century Swede is Olof Palme: arrogant, neurotic and vociferously anti-American...
...become Sweden's highest-paid executive. He earns $340,000 a year, though taxes gobble up 80% of it. In addition, Wall controls 15% of all outstanding Beijerinvest shares, which at current market prices are worth about $3.6 million. In marked contrast to the stereotype of the dour Swede, Wall is a chipper, handsome, nattily dressed man who favors loud ties and modern art. A striking transparent torso of a woman stuffed with American $1 bills adorns his Stockholm office. Wall's key strength as an executive-a virtue that pleases even Sweden's socialists...
...cost of the social welfare experiment in Sweden's laboratory getting out of hand? Many Swedes think so. To pay for social security, employers must now ante up as much as $38.70 to the state for every $100 in salary they disburse. This is in addition to what businesses must spend for vacations, holidays and sick leaves. The individual Swede also pays for his privileges, in the form of some of the world's highest income taxes; that industrial worker who earns $11,250, for instance, must give the taxman $4,125. Levies on the half-million self...