Word: svenska
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...particularly unpleasant kind of unofficial intimidation is something the Swedes call den kungliga Svenska avundsjukan (the royal Swedish envy): a near universal disapproval of anyone who jumps too far outside the norm, either in the quantity of his material possessions or, by extension, the quality of his ideas. It is, moreover, nearly impossible for anyone to hide from a neighbor's scrutiny: all income-tax data, birth records and other personal documents are matters of public information, available for inspection at public records offices...
...penetration of Europe is concerned, I would like to point out that it is the excessive scale on which Japanese imports are increasing that constitutes a threat to employment. The Benelux governments are advocates of greater freedom for imports of European products into Japan itself." Folke Lindskog, chairman of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (S.K.F.), emphasized that "the Japanese protect their home market. They are reluctant to allow us to establish ourselves as manufacturers in Japan, although they are free to establish 100% ownership of factories in the U.S. and in important European countries." Many speakers, including Lindskog, thought that Japan was starting...
Henkel, Henkel GmbH; Stephen F. Keating, Honeywell; Folke Lindskog, Svenska Kullagerfabriken (S.K.F.); Jacques G. Maisonrouge, IBM World Trade; Sir Arthur Norman, The De la Rue Co.; Dr. Aurelio Peccei, Olivetti; Count Theo Rossi Di Montelera, Martini & Rossi; Evelyn de Rothschild, N.M. Rothschild & Sons; Dermot A. Ryan, Ryan's Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...
...Divorce. If the lockout of men engaged in the nation's defense boggled outside observers, it little surprised Swedes. Military officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...