Portugal then beat Denmark 3-2 courtesy of a very late winning goal and then they dealt with the Netherlands 2-1.

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World number one Wozniacki of Denmark then thrashed Russia's Elena Dementieva 6-1 6-1 in the Maroon Group.

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Then too, when Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen reportedly agreed to apologize to the Islamic world for Denmark's independent Jyllands-Postens 2005 publication of cartoons of Muhammad in exchange for Turkish support for his candidacy for NATO secretary-general, he was accepting that it is Western civilization - with its freedom of speech - that is to blame for Islamic aggression and intolerance.

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Then come Britain, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, which will stay out of the euro at first.

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And there is a precedent for a merger in stages: Scandinavian Airlines began as a co-operative venture between the airlines of Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1946 and then merged in 1951.

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If Microsoft was sending the money from Denmark to Bermuda, just as an example, then they could, they could contest the royalty amounts as they are departing the EU. But because they are going to Ireland they cannot.

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In the nineteen-eighties, engineers from Europe began arriving in Xinjiang, in order to test their wind turbines, and in 1987 Wu, then a young engineer in charge of an early Chinese wind farm, worked alongside engineers from Denmark, a center of wind-power research.

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So, if you think that Britain (or Sweden or Denmark, the other voluntary non-members, see article) should join now, or soon, then Britain should actually have joined right from the start.

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