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...They've got some good foreign guys on their team," Hench said of the Swedish Starnas and the Norwegian Hoyem. "We're going to play three markers and one sweeper against them and make sure a sweeper stays deep. We want to play pressure defense against them and make sure the backs stay on the forwards...
...SWEDISH SCIENTISTS A team from Uppsala University has reported the existence of bacteria that can manufacture minute quantities of silver. The discovery may lead to the production of new kinds of metal films and coatings...
...racquet makers such as Wilson, Prince and Head, the company that makes Agassi's. With golf muscling in on the leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...
...1980s. Head was sold to a leveraged buyout firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money at it, and the company ran up huge losses. Finally, they said, 'Enough is enough...
...could not wear priest's robes, she let him buy a forbidden pair of trousers. His education helped him understand threats to the Ganges, and since 1982 he has struggled to open the eyes of bureaucrats and the public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting him to a waste-management conference, he silently raises his hand to bless an old man with a huge vermilion mark on his forehead who is bending over Mishra's feet...