Word: sweden
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...nations that could not or would not get into the Common Market. Britain, which saw EFTA as a second-best alignment until it could ally with the Common Market, has twice the wealth, trade and population of the other six combined. Those far-flung nations range from socialist Norway, Sweden and Denmark through dictatorial Portugal to neutralist Austria and Switzerland. Unlike the Common Market nations, they have no hopes for ultimate political union, no plans to reduce farm tariffs, no intention of establishing a common external tariff...
Removed or Reduced. The British surcharge threatens not only to impede that progress but to wreck EFTA. Britain's EFTA partners have threatened to retaliate unless the surcharge is removed or reduced; Sweden's Volvo automaker has already warned that it will stop buying British auto parts (total: $36 million a year). The pressure on Britain to drop the tax will build up strongly at this week's Geneva meeting of EFTA's consultative committee and at next month's meeting of EFTA's ministerial council. Largely because Britain has been shocked into realizing...
ICOMI has been so successful, in fact, that it is beginning to make its presence felt all over Brazil. It recently joined with Sweden's SKF to build a ball bearing plant near São Paulo, is making plans to expand into the sugar, plywood and palm-oil businesses. With world manganese prices once more moving up after a slump, ICOMI expects soon to have even more money for seed capital and diversification...
...others: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus, France's Marshal Turenne and Frederick the Great...
...Laurentiis promoted an international newspaper straw vote to find out whether the world thought of Eve as blonde or dark, and a few thousand Western Europeans in effect declared that they could not see how the mother of mankind could have come from any place east of Sweden. Eve is now a Swedish girl named Ulla Bergryd who has been accustomed to stalking about in only long tresses while paparazzi keep leaping out of the foliage to take her picture. Huston has decided that there will be no fig leaves after the Fall. He said he tried aprons...