"Europe is the problem, " Olafur Ragnar Grimsson said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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"He is safe and in good spirits, " zoo official Ragnar Kuehne said after the deadline had passed.

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And the Migros Museum, which has a renowned collection of cutting-edge art, will open with hip Icelandic performing artist and painter Ragnar Kjartansson.

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They almost certainly learned it from Ragnar Frisch, a Norwegian economist, who with Tinbergen shared the first Nobel prize in economics in 1969.

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Ragnar Lofstedt, a Swedish academic based at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in Britain, estimates that even with subsidies, windpower is unlikely to replace more than 0.3% of nuclear's capacity by 2005.

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The Tottenham keeper, whose place in the starting line-up had been the subject of much debate amid shaky club form, fumbled a drive by Ragnar Klavan but collected the ball at the second attempt.

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President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and Iceland's Parliament had agreed to a repayment plan drawn up as what the press their calls the Icesave law, named for the high-interest accounts at the heart of the mess.

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Krugman, on the other hand, has left the door wide open to the possibility that anyone from Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen (1969) to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims (2011) could be among the idiots he has identified.

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