Word: rasmussen
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...learn from the North? French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, for one, acknowledges Nordic influence on some of his social policies. Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel, even invited along his Swedish counterpart, Per Nuder, during last month's election campaign. But Denmark's former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen warned that simply borrowing Nordic policies without adapting them to national conditions would result in "bad karaoke." Still, the survey suggests Europe's biggest economies need to do something radical: France, Germany, Spain and Britain all slipped in this year's rankings, and Italy came in at No. 47 - just...
...Though they'd been told not to get out of the car unless they were virtually certain a person was in danger, the group finds itself stopping quite often, whether for downed trees or houses with crushed roofs. On Hobson Street, Mary Rasmussen, 61, comes out to declare that she's "been through many a storm, but nothing like this." Between drags on her cigarette, she tells of a Miss Carry who is between 90 and 100 years old, refused to leave for Rita and is all alone in her little home around the corner. Lykins goes and knocks...
...pace the verandas where the writer would listen to the distant surf crashing on the reef. But Samoa's climate hasn't been kind to his writing. A set of first editions in the museum has almost perished. "The cockroaches got to the books," says museum manager Lufilufi Rasmussen. "The covers aren't legible now, so we have to get them restored...
...process, dictating that new generations would keep the patronymic of the head of the family at that time. The unfortunate result was that two thirds of Danes still carry a limited selection of names such as Nielsen, Jensen and Hansen. (Both the former and current prime ministers are called Rasmussen, and foreigners often wonder whether they are related. They aren't; they're just Danes...
...failed suicide squeeze attempt to be a foul ball, Walsh jogged out of the dugout to argue the call. The two umpires then conversed for several minutes before overturning the initial ruling and sending Vance to first base on catcher’s interference by Yale backstop Eric Rasmussen...