Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweden, where the government provides free medical service, health costs have risen from 9.5% of G.N.P. in 1974 to 11.3% last year. As in Germany, the government is pressing for a hold-down; among other things, Sweden routinely denies expensive organ transplants to people over 70?a cruel but necessary form of rationing. Britain's National Health Service has done a better job of holding down costs; medical outlays as a percentage of G.N.P. (5.6% at last count, in 1977) have been fairly stable. But there has been a price to pay. The nation is suffering from a doctor shortage...
There are 27 fellows at the center in its opening year-eight historians, five philosophers, four members of English departments. They come from England, Sweden and Israel, as well as all over the U.S. Six are in their 30s. Four are professors emeriti. Five are women. And it is safe to say that they look at the center 27 different ways as they drive up each morning from houses and apartments in nearby Chapel Hill, Raleigh or Durham...
Still, Strasbourg's power of gentle persuasion has produced results, from broadening trade union freedom in Belgium and Sweden to expanding legal aid in Ireland and protecting prisoners' rights in Britain and Germany. Strasbourg has helped induce the British government to loosen its immigration laws, stop mistreating prisoners in Ulster and persuade authorities on the Isle of Man to stop "birching" the bare behinds of petty criminals...
United States $42,200,000,000 Japan $23,900,000,000 West Germany $14,100,000,000 France $11,.100,.000,000 Italy $8,000,000,000 Spain $4,400,000,000 United Kingdom $4,200,000,000 Brazil $4,100,000,000 Netherlands $2,500,000,000 Sweden $2,500,000,000 Belgium/Luxembourg $2,500,000,000 India $1,500,000,000 Canada $1,200,000,000 Australia...
...Associated Newspapers. Associated is selling most of its interest in Esquire to 13-30 Corp. of Knoxville, Tenn., a small but fast-growing publisher of specialized magazines (New Marriage, Nutshell, Graduate) aimed at readers aged 13 to 30. The firm is half-owned by the Bonnier Group, Sweden's largest publisher. "The backers [Associated] have decided to shift their resources," said a weary Felker last week. "It's all very complicated...