Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them entry-level positions, such as clerk and secretary, at an average salary of $5.30 an hour. The program has already helped to reduce the city's unemployment rate for high school graduates to 4.5%, well below the national level of 17%. Delegations from as far away as Sweden and France have visited Boston to examine the system...
...weeks in August rafting down the Colorado River with his three children: Hilary, 27, Victoria, 24, and Thomas, 17. (His wife Sissela, a professor of philosophy at Brandeis and author of two well-received books, Lying and Secrets, normally accompanies him on such expeditions but had to go to Sweden to visit her ailing father, the famous sociologist Gunnar Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, he continued to play in Cambridge as head of a campus team called "Bok's Jocks...
That is how it was immediately after last April's accident at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Only after furious protests and demands for information from Sweden and other Western countries did the Soviets even admit that anything had occurred, and then they limited themselves to terse statements that only increased anxiety over the nature and extent of the mishap. The result, of course, was runaway rumors. In the absence of credible official information, stories began to circulate of 2,000 or more people dead and mass graves dug in the countryside...
...Europe reaction to the report was strong, if only because some Europeans are still suffering from the aftereffects of Chernobyl. Sweden was one of the countries most seriously affected, and last week Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, who once accepted nuclear power, gave a bitter speech in which he charged that "Chernobyl has spread radioactive iodine and cesium over our fields, forests, marshes and lakes." The accident has cost Sweden at least $144 million in ruined food and threatens the livelihood of 15,000 Lapp nomads who live in central Sweden. The reindeer they raise and the berries and fish they...
Radcliffe alumnae including women who now reside in Sweden, Israel, and California will journey to Harvard the first week of September to discuss women's issues and also "issues on which women's voices aren't usually heard, such as war and disarmament," Press said...