Word: sweden
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They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by the limousine load-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France, Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and deadlier weapons...
...Argentina. Austria, Brazil, France, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Scotland. Spain. Sweden, Tunisia, West Germany. At the start of the series, the three teams most favored to win the Cup were West Germany, Brazil and Argentina...
...exchange for cars, oil for the pumps of Sweden " We are leaving the defensive role Wand going on the offensive," declared Pehr Gyllenhammar, president of Volvo, Sweden's troubled giant (1977 sales: $3.6 billion). On that confident note, he announced last week a bold and imaginative reorganization that in one stroke will supply the automaker with urgently needed cash, give Sweden access to North Sea oilfields and bring in Norway as an energetic junior partner in a new binational corporation. The Norwegians, eager to use their oil riches to develop high-technology industries, called Gyllenhammar's proposal...
...almost everyone knows, iron is routinely added to "enriched" flour and bread because the element, needed to make hemoglobin, is stripped out in the grain-milling process. But disturbing news from Sweden suggests that too much iron may trigger a serious and often fatal hereditary illness. It is an iron storage disorder called hemochromatosis, and it causes its victims, mostly male, to absorb too much iron. Possible results: liver disease, diabetes, impotence, sterility, heart failure, even sudden death...
Swedes get 42% of their dietary iron from fortified foods. The Swedish doctors are careful not to draw a causal link between the incidence of iron overload and Sweden's 30-year-old iron fortification program. But they warn that under such a program, people genetically predisposed to hemochromatosis are at risk...