TOP ROLLS-ROYCE TRAINEES RECEIVE DESIGN AND MAKE PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM CHAIRMAN.
PR Newswire, London, January 18. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce trainees from North America, Germany, Scandinavia and the UK have received the company's top accolade for training achievement in the annual Chairman's Awards. Chairman Sir Ralph Robins presented prizes to...

TMNG Names Piet Aarts Regional Director for Northern Europe.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Management Network Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMNG), a leading provider of management consulting services to the global telecommunications industry, today announced that it has named Piet Aarts as Regional Director for Northern Europe. Mr. Aarts will be responsible for enhancing...

SEB Selects NetEconomy for Global Roll-out to Combat Financial Crime.
Phase One Now Live in Latvia With ERASE THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, January 9 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEconomy, the global leader in financial crime management and compliance solutions, today announced that Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has selected its ERASE(R) Compliance Manager(TM) anti-money laundering (AML) solution for monitoring banking...

Images of America in Scandinavia.
Poul Houe and Sven Hakan Rossel, eds. Images of America in Scandinavia. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 28. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Pp. i-x + 232. Paper. $19.50. While there is a large literature on aspects of the American image in different Nordic countries at different...

IN BRIEF: Nordic composites conference and exhibition
The Nordic Consortium for Composites and Sandwich Construction of Stockholm, Sweden, is staging a conference and exhibition to review the last four years of research and development. "Composites and Sandwich Structures" is to be held in Stockholm from 22-23 October and will feature a number of technical presentations covering...

Alcohol and Alcohol Control in Sweden.
On 23 October 1997, Systembolaget (the Swedish Alcohol Retailing Monopoly)--Systemet, for short--got a new lease on life. On this day, the European Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg handed down its eagerly anticipated decision on the future of Systembolaget's retail monopoly in the sale of spirits,...

Radioactive waste and Russia's Northern Fleet: sinking the principles of international environmental law.
Communication with the Russian military on the Kola Peninsula is poor. We can understand their situation, but the problems of nuclear waste there are so great that they have to be solved. A catastrophe in the North would affect the whole of Europe. Jorgen Kosmo, Norwegian Defense...

Scandinavia and the Great Powers: 1890-1940.
Patrick Salmon. Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge up, 1997. Pp. xix + 421. Finland's gallant defeat in the Winter War and the German occupation of Norway and Denmark later in the spring dramatically altered northern Europe in 1940. In both cases great powers made decisions enhancing...

In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: Contemporary Sami Prose and Poetry.
Harald Gaski, ed. In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: Contemporary Sami Prose and Poetry. Karasjohka, Norway: Davvi Girji (Distributed in North America by u Washington P), 1996. Pp. 276. Few topics hold as broad an appeal for humanist, historian, or social scientist as the complex and exciting phenomenon...

Scandinavia and the United States: An Insecure Friendship.
Jussi M. Hanhimaki. Scandinavia and the United States: An Insecure Friendship. Ed. Akira Iriye. Twayne's International History Series. New York: Twayne, 1997. Pp. i-xvii + 223. $29.95. One of the Cold War's coldest regions was also one of its most complex. Hanhimaki juxtaposes the United States' relationship...