Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...
...late summer afternoons, fleets of private boats jam the Oslofjord; in winter, thousands of Norwegians spend their weekends on the country's ski slopes or on quick trips to resorts in balmy Spain. About 75% of all Norwegian families own their homes and close to half also have vacation retreats-a cottage on the coast or a cabin in the mountains. The humble Volkswagen has been dethroned as king of the road, replaced as Norway's best-selling car by the more luxurious Volvo...
...industrial democracy" requires all firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones for salary hikes. Still other future programs would, according to Premier Nordli, continue slashing "differences in pay, wealth and other advantages...
...Norwegian economists fear that the state's generosity may be adversely affecting the country's economy. Norway's production costs are already the globe's highest and in large part are responsible for the country's more than $5 billion trade deficit last year...
...running true to the tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...