Word: thorbjorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 "the deal of the century." Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin, whose non-Socialist coalition had refused to help Volvo, endorsed the company's plan for saving itself...
...German-born Queen Silvia, 33, is breast-feeding her daughter and hopes, she says, to give Victoria "as natural a childhood as possible." Meanwhile, members of Sweden's Parliament are preparing a recommendation that the constitution be changed to allow a female succession to the throne. Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is also speaking out for the change. His sentiment: "Monarchy for both sexes...
Like its Socialist predecessor, the new coalition government of Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is fully committed to the welfare state. That means keeping unemployment at its present low rate of 1.5%, even if employers must pay workers who show up only sporadically. Volvo has pioneered new ideas to keep workers interested, including a novel assembly line that allows employees to set their own pace (TIME, Sept. 16, 1974). That has cut absenteeism in a new plant outside Kalmar to 15%-still high by almost any standards outside Sweden. Even shutting down is no answer; on each of the days that...
...Social Democrats−who, together with a scattering of Communists, have held a ten-seat majority in Parliament since 1970−faced their strongest opposition ever. It consisted of a nonsocialist coalition of the Center, Liberal and Moderate (conservative) parties, led by a ruggedly handsome farmer named Thorbjorn Falldin, 47. If he won a second three-year term as Prime Minister, Palme promised to embark on an intensified campaign to increase the scope of socialism. Falldin promised to halt that trend and to restore a measure of individual initiative to Sweden's increasingly straitjacketed society...