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Word: denmark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...house he owned in Westlake Village to a cartel kingpin. When Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the house in pursuit of that operator, they found records showing that Villabona and his Danish wife Helle Nielsen had seven bank accounts in Copenhagen. Later, the unsuspecting Villabona twice flew to Denmark, where he made hundreds of telephone calls to conduct his coke business. So, on one occasion, did Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...neutral Sweden and Finland, the groups were created without the governments' knowledge. In NATO countries Norway and Denmark, the units were built with official cooperation. But in addition, Colby revealed, the CIA secretly formed its own backup networks in both Norway and Denmark. Still unknown are how many of these organizations are alive today and what they may have been up to lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Nato's Secret Armies | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...economic positions. Said Pohl: "More than a single currency, the emerging single European market needs converging economic policies, which are not yet in place." Like Thatcher, Pohl was asking how the E.C. can have a common currency when inflation rates range from a low of 3.1% in Germany and Denmark to 10.9% in Britain and 21% in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Feet on the Dance Floor | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...take up to 28 weeks of unpaid maternity leave or up to 20 weeks of adoption leave, though they are less likely to need it since day care, health care and early education are widely available in that country. In France, as well as in Belgium, Italy and Denmark, at least 75% of children ages 3 to 5 are in some form of state-funded preschool programs. In Japan both the government and most companies offer monthly subsidies to parents with children. In Germany parents may deduct the cost of child care from their taxes. "Under our tax laws," observes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shameful Bequests to The Next Generation | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...many of his earlier works, particularly, Heaney shows a fascination with the metaphor of archaeology. In poems selected from his books Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he deals at length with the "bog people," prehistoric humans whose bodies scientists have recovered, almost perfectly preserved, from peat bogs in Denmark. These long-buried victims of "tribal, intimate revenge" become symbols of the collective subconscious of their modern descendants...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Excavating His Irish Roots | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

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