Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most significantly, he was the man who informed Adolf Eichmann, the official in charge of Jewish extermination, that there were no objections on the part of the German foreign ministry to the deportation of thousands of French and stateless Jews to Aushwitz. He was also the man who rejected Sweden's offer to accept Norwegian Jews about to be sent to Nazi death camps, and he refused to intervene on behalf of Catholic priests who were sent to the camps. After the war, the Baron was deservedly convicted of being a Nazi war criminal and sent to prison...
...sure, Toyota and Nissan have little reason for nervousness. Imports accounted for only 2.2% of the Japanese market last year, and the giant American auto manufacturers were virtually absent. BMW's success, however, has encouraged several foreign carmakers, including Sweden's Saab and Volvo and West Germany's Mercedes-Benz, to push harder in Japan. As a result, car imports to Japan jumped 36% in 1986, to more than...
...Malmo, Sweden...
...transplant procedure was not without precedent. Beginning five years ago, doctors in Sweden tried similar surgery on four Parkinson's victims. They achieved only slight improvements that soon faded. Madrazo credits his team's success to modifications in surgical technique. The Swedes had transferred the adrenal tissue directly into a C-shaped structure in the middle of the brain called the caudate nucleus, where dopamine exerts its primary effects. The Mexicans, by contrast, used surgical staples to anchor the cells onto the exterior of the caudate, which is continually bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. This nourishing bath may have helped...
While news teams from as far away as Sweden and the Soviet Union looked on, Judge Harvey Sorkow, 57, read his decision for three hours to a packed courtroom in Hackensack, N.J. Declaring the contract valid, he rejected arguments that it might violate public policy or laws against baby selling. A father cannot buy "what is already his," the judge said. He maintained that the surrogacy option was protected under constitutional privacy guarantees that include the right to procreate. In a crucial caveat, however, he said the contract was not automatically enforceable, because when conflicts arose the "best interests...