The Norwegian Government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under (36) Production limits have been (37) down; and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a (38) number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems. As a Norwegian (39) said last week, "We will soon change beyond all recognition."
During the past few years the program of development in the northern area of the Arctic Circle has had a great deal of success: Tromso has been built up into a (40) capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people in south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in (41) .
The (42) of the oil industry would not be limited to the north, however. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation (43) in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose more of their workers to the oil industry. (44) .
The real argument over oil is its threat to the Norwegian way of life. (45) , but they are an important part of it, because Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as essentially Norwegian. (46) .