Word: sweden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...demand from golfers looking for new and interesting courses around the world," says Bill Hogan, president of Wide World of Golf (WWG), a purveyor of luxury golf trips. "They've done Scotland and Ireland, and now they want something new, so they're reaching out to places like China, Sweden and Australia...
...film as literature, movies as high art. With his dense, dead-serious studies of God and death, love and sex, Bergman was dubbed the Shakespeare of the cinema. Two-week-long retrospectives of his films ran in commercial theaters around the country. Critics in the U.S., Britain, France and Sweden wrote full-length studies of his films. In 1960 Bergman graced the cover of TIME, and Simon & Schuster published a book of four of his screenplays--a rare tribute to a movie playwright. The tonier cocktail parties were rife with debates on the elusive, allusive meanings of such films...
...which delivered its report in 1969. The next year, the UN General Assembly adopted the 0.7 percent target as the international standard for foreign aid contribution. In the 35 years since, rich countries have repeatedly pledged to meet that target, but only a handful—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands—have followed through...
...Sweden surprised the world last week by cutting interest rates, which could trigger rate cuts throughout Europe and a falling euro. Yet Buffett has indicated that he's sticking with his bet. "There's no change in the underlying factors affecting currencies," he said, adding that in the long run, the U.S. trade deficit must weaken the buck. It's not all bad news for Buffett fans. He first bet against the dollar as it was falling in 2002 and remains in the money overall. But with his gains eroding, dreaded derivatives may claim the biggest victim...
...that the understudy has the starring role, political observers wonder whether Carlsson will maintain the high international profile that Palme fashioned for Sweden or will preoccupy himself with domestic issues. He takes office at a time when many Swedes are beginning to view Sweden's cradle-to-grave social-service system as a drain on their prosperity. There is some question whether Carlsson can provide the leadership to continue to fend off challenges from the nonsocialist opposition...