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OSHA
Agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. Formed in 1970, it is charged with ensuring that employers furnish their employees with a working environment free from recognized health and safety hazards. It enforces occupational safety and health standards, develops regulations, conducts investigations and workplace inspections, and issues citations and penalties for noncompliance.
Oslo
City (metro. area pop., 1997 est.: 494,000), capital of Norway. It lies at the N end of Oslo Fjord and constitutes a separate county. It was founded by King Harald III Hardraade c.1050. Haakon V built the Akershus fortress c.1300. After it was destroyed by fire in 1624, King Christian II of Denmark-Norway built a new town farther west and called it Christiania. It grew in the 19th cent., partly by absorbing neighboring towns, and replaced Bergen as Norway's largest and most influential city. It was renamed Oslo in 1925 and developed rapidly after World War II. It is the country's principal commercial, industrial, and transportation center, and its harbor is the largest and busiest in Norway.
Ozu
Japanese film director. He joined the Shochiku movie studio as a cameraman in 1923 and directed his first film three years later. He originated the genre known as shomin-geki ("common-people's drama"), which treated lower-middle-class Japanese family life, with such films as the silent comedies I Graduated, But . . . (1929) and I Was Born, But . . . (1932) and The Toda Brother and His Sisters (1941). His later films, noted for their detailed character portrayals, pictorial beauty, and quiet, contemplative mood, include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Early Spring (1956), Late Autumn (1960), The End of Summer (1961), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).
soul
Immaterial aspect or essence of a person, conjoined with the body during life and separable at death. The concept of a soul is found in nearly all cultures and religions, though the interpretations of its nature vary considerably. The ancient Egyptians conceived of a dual soul, one surviving death but remaining near the body, while the other proceeded to the realm of the dead. The early Hebrews did not consider the soul as distinct from the body, but later Jewish writers perceived the two as separate. Christian theology adopted the Greek concept of an immortal soul, adding the notion that God created the soul and infused it into the body at conception. In Hinduism, each soul, or atman, was created at the beginning of time and imprisoned in an earthly body; at death, the soul passes to a new body according to the laws of karma. Buddhism negates the idea of a soul, asserting that any sense of an individual self is illusory.
Aruba
Island (pop., 1994: 72,000), Lesser Antilles, off NW Venezuela. Aruba is an internally self-governing part of the Netherlands. It has an area of 70 sq mi (180 sq km). Its capital is Oranjestad. Most ...
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