Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of the end of the statutory wage "freeze" this month. And even though Germany's downturn has been steeper than anyone expected, the OECD sees a "moderate recovery" in the second half. In turn, the recoveries will tone up the flagging economies of small countries such as Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands, which depend heavily on exports to Britain and Germany...
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Rationing Coupons. Added shipping costs and dwindling petroleum supplies have already forced gasoline-price increases in Sweden, The Netherlands. West Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Escaping price increases for the time being are France, which is getting oil from Algeria, and Italy, whose storage tanks still have a two-month supply of crude oil. Much the hardest hit is Britain, which ordinarily gets two-thirds of its oil from Arab sources. The British have started printing gasoline-rationing coupons as "a precautionary measure," last week gave oil companies the go ahead to raise petroleum prices. Meanwhile, oil companies have been chartering...
...crackplot, but Verdi's tunes justify the onstage bewilderment. The opera has an ominous history: the day Verdi brought his score to Naples, assassins tried to murder Napoleon III. Frightened Bourbon censors forced the composer to switch the locale of his rather gloomy tale (about the assassination of Sweden's 18th century King Gustav III) to exotic Massachusetts and to dramatize instead the assassination of the "Governor of Boston." Conducted appropriately by Boston's Erich Leinsdorf, this version stars the lush vocal beauty of Leontyne Price, supported by a mostly American cast, including Robert Merrill, Shirley Verrett...
...atomics, electronics and supersonic transport-they have formed a common-law marriage with the Government, which underwrites most of their development costs and buys the bulk of their output. One result is that government purchasing accounts for 20% or 25% of U.S. economic activity-far more than in semisocialist Sweden and close to that in Communist Poland...