Lahti

a town in S Finland: site of the main Finnish radio and television stations; furniture industry. Pop.: 98 253 (2003 est.)

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Lahti

a city and port in Finland, in Häme Province. Located on the south end of the Päiänne Lake system. Population, 88,700 (1970). Lahti is an important railroad junction. The city’s industry is represented by lumber processing and woodworking (sawn lumber, plywood, matches, and furniture) and the production of equipment for the pulp-and-paper industry; there are also textile, footwear, glass, and food-processing enterprises. Lahti is the site of Finland’s biggest radio station and a center of tourism and winter sport.

Present-day housing construction in Lahti is distinguished by diversity in the planning of neighborhood districts that blend organically with the landscape. Structures built in the 20th century include the city hall (1912, architect E. Saarinen), the concert hall (1957, architects K. and H. Siren), and a bank (1964, architect V. Revell). The Peace Monument was erected in Lahti in 1950–52 (granite, sculptor W. W. Aaltonen).

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Skanska AB (STO:SKAB) announced on Tuesday the signing of an agreement with the city of Lahti to renovate and extend the Kivimaa public school in Lahti, Finland.

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"We've got a bunch of young guys and we have to get them some varsity playing time that they haven't had much of other than in blowouts," Lahti said.

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After checking in at their hotel in the city of Lahti, players and officials took a look at the nearby 14,500 capacity Lahden Stadium which will host their big European clash with MyPa.

'It will be like an away game for MyPa too'

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Akin to Lahti's past sculptural works featuring only the backs of figures--a girl running or a woman with a cane--this work deploys a controlled crudeness to plumb feelings of aching loss and unfocused anxiety.

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It just happened that when I called Osmo Vanska in Lahti last week to talk about Kullervo, he had just been rehearsing the Rachmaninov, included in an interesting programme with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra alongside John Corigliano's music from the film The Red Violin.

Vanska for the music; Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska talks to Terry Grimley about a rare performance of an early Sibelius masterpiece

The European Council in Lahti on 20 October will make Vladimir Putin the centre of media attention because of subjects which are never officially on the agenda of these meetings, such as human rights.

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In the early '80s, geologist Howard Lahti learned there was granite under Scotland's surface that affected the aquifers below.

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