Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observers from 19 countries attended the conference and organizers said funding was provided by the Dutch government and church groups from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They said the Canadian government had offered to finance regional follow-up meetings...
...think that at the end of this whole process, there will be a neutral, nuclear-free zone in Central Europe as already exists to the north in Finland and Sweden and to the south in Austria and Switzerland...
...through 19 were killed in homicides, suicides and accidents with guns in 1987, accounting for 11% of deaths in that age group. No nation comes close to the U.S. in such fatalities. In 1985 not a single teenage male was the victim of gun-related homicide in England or Sweden...
...fact, Haavelmo's prize reflected a situation that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to choose many older economists whose work could not be recognized when it was first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened...
...same as the estrogens most commonly used in the U.S. "While women should not conclude yet that they are totally without risk," he says, "it is highly likely that the estrogen American women use may be safer for a longer period of time than the estrogen used in Sweden...